Top 100 Quotes About Compassion
#1. Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Mason Cooley
#2. Patti Callahan Henry seamlessly combines mystery, family love, and personal journey all in one engrossing tale. From the intriguing beginning to the touching ending, The Stories We Tell is filled with the warmth, heart and compassion that have become the trademark of her novels.
Diane Chamberlain
#3. Compassion is the key to a successful relationship because by means of compassion we can access the innermost needs of the other. When we are aware of those needs, we can begin to communicate and not just profess what we think we know and demand that others change because we want them to.
Sharon Gannon
#4. Too, if you're a true contemplative, your life and words will overflow with spiritual wisdom, compassion, and fruitful insight, because you're sure to measure out what you say carefully and calmly, eschewing lies and speaking without the shrill pretense of hypocrites.
Anonymous
#5. Roosevelt was as much concerned to end the oppression of Jews as Lincoln was to end slavery during the Civil War; their priority in policy (whatever their personal compassion for victims of persecution) was not minority rights, but national power.
Howard Zinn
#6. We can achieve more in a moment of compassion than in an hour of anger.
Sam Owen
#7. The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are the true targets of the ego system ...
Jacqueline Ripstein
#8. Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.
Junius
#9. All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.
Guy Finley
#10. In reality, the Us-and-Them or I-and-Thou dichotomies do not exist. There is only one universal We - one human family united by the capacity to feel compassion and to demand equal justice for all.
John Howard Griffin
#11. My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
Rumi
#12. Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.
Joan D. Chittister
#13. It is my goal to win every time I play. But on the other hand, I also seek a balance of compassion and respect for the other players. I understand that everyone goes through difficult times, either mentally or physically, to cope with their life, to live the sport.
Novak Djokovic
#14. Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil
Dennis Prager
#15. I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.
Judith Hanson Lasater
#16. Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.
Dagobert D. Runes
#17. What is love? Love is treating your heart with a great deal of tenderness, with understanding, love, and compassion. If you cannot treat your own heart this way, how can you treat your partner with understanding and love?
Thich Nhat Hanh
#18. Compassion is the heart that never stops loving others. It is like a wellspring that never runs dry.
Ryuho Okawa
#19. The search for peace is a form of prayer that generates light and heat.Forget about yourself for awhile and understand that in that light lies wisdom and in that heat lies compassion.
Paulo Coelho
#20. On the day when I act," says the LORD Almighty, "they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him. And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.
Anonymous
#21. My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
Dalai Lama
#22. When bad things happen or you don't get your own way, if you can open your heart to compassion instead of shunting it down in anger, you're going to create more light.
Barrie Dolnick
#23. The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
Radhanath Swami
#24. I don't always make the best choices, but today I choose compassion over intolerance, sympathy over hatred and love over fear.
L.J. Vanier
#25. It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#26. I have three powers to win the world: my omnipotent love, my omnipresent kindness, and my omniscient compassion.
Debasish Mridha
#28. My point is, it takes a special person to cry over a book. It shows compassion as well as imagination...Don't ever lose that
Alex Gino
#29. If the message of Jesus was love, hope and compassion, and I can bring that to more people by being a more appealing Jesus, I am happy with that.
Diogo Morgado
#30. Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#31. Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
John Stott
#32. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.
Christopher Hitchens
#33. There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.
David Cameron
#34. Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
Jack Kornfield
#35. Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower.
Steve Maraboli
#36. You become good at what you practise, basketball, anger or compassion, it is up to you!
Kamon
#37. Be a vessel of love and fill up with compassion and kindness. Then give it away with unconditional love.
Debasish Mridha
#38. This system of control depends far more on racial indifference (defined as a lack of compassion and caring about race and racial groups) than racial hostility - a feature it actually shares with its predecessors. All
Michelle Alexander
#39. Therefore, let us put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering; and let us prove our Christlikeness not only in our zeal for saving the lost but also in our relationships with others - forbearing and forgiving one another, even as the Lord forgave us. Let
Andrew Murray
#40. Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.
Rue McClanahan
#41. Real compassion means to understand what the needs for body, mind and soul are.
Radhanath Swami
#42. For those regarded as warriors ...
When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior's only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord God or Buddha himself. This truth lies at the heart of the art of combat.
Quentin Tarantino
#43. In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love.
Michael Goldenberg
#44. People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
Michele Bachmann
#45. She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.
Charles Bukowski
#46. The best leaders blend courage with compassion.
Robin Sharma
#47. Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.
Bill Ferguson
#48. No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.
Brene Brown
#49. People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win.
Stewart Stafford
#50. It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.
Bruce Lee
#51. The voice of Thich Nhat Hanh-friendly, patient, steadfast, confident, contemporary, and often witty-seems, to me, an intermediary big brother talking directly to me on every page saying, 'Look! It's right there in you,' the very wisdom that leads to compassion.
Sylvia Boorstein
#52. Have greater compassion and empathy for others, and don't judge anyone, because you have no idea what's going on in their life.
Sandra Vischer
#53. The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.
Brimstone
#54. Our God is known for His compassion for the needy; let us be known for it as well.
Dillon Burroughs
#55. I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
Sharon Salzberg
#56. She thought, If I or my father or any Boughton has ever stirred the Lord's compassion, then Jack will be all right. Because perdition for him would be perdition for every one of us.
Marilynne Robinson
#57. Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
U Thant
#58. Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities.
Brian Rathbone
#59. The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
Alan W. Watts
#60. When ordinary human beings perform extraordinary acts of generosity, endurance or compassion, we are all made richer by their example. Like the rivers that flow out of the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush, the inspiration they generate washes down to the rest of us. It waters everyone's fields.
Greg Mortenson
#61. If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.
Milton Friedman
#62. Success is a way of life with the sense of connection, compassion, and expansion of human life.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Ronald Spiers: The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#64. Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.
Amy Chua
#65. We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
Bartlett Sher
#66. You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
Saint Stephen
#67. Maybe he was worried that I would get thinner and thinner, until I became as unfindable as my mother, and I felt a stab of compassion for him, imagining my father alone in this house with the white shadows of his two invisible women.
Laura Kasischke
#68. When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, He's offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that person's life. You must learn to follow that love. Don't ignore it. Act on it. Somebody needs what you have.
Joel Osteen
#69. I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.
Sri Chinmoy
#70. I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.
Andy Stanley
#71. Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.
Michael Greger
#72. There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group.
Amit Ray
#73. I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.
Tori Amos
#74. I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.
Joshua Radin
#75. I speak from experience that even in darkness, it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. There it is: I still believe in man in spite of man.
Elie Wiesel
#76. God can never be outdone in generousity and compassion but that should not stop us from trying.
Lucas Michael
#78. If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world.
Chade-Meng Tan
#79. An attitude of compassion does not mean looking down on someone, pitying them in their misery. Compassion is based on respect. We discuss life as equals, learn from each other and strive together to improve our lives.
Daisaku Ikeda
#80. You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
Nadine Gordimer
#81. God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.
Sathya Sai Baba
#82. Humanity's collective mission in the cosmos lies in the practice of compassion.
Daisaku Ikeda
#83. God makes His presence known in many ways. In acts of love, in selfless acts of courage, in everyday human compassion.
William Kent Krueger
#84. Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.
Albert Schweitzer
#85. Self-awareness and healthy self-love go hand in hand. When we love what God has given us and share it with others naturally and without expectations for gratitude we are truly people who have spiritual self-confidence and compassion; and isn't that a great way to live?
Robert J. Wicks
#87. Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.
Brigham Young
#88. Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.
Ming-Dao Deng
#89. I looked up. Mom looked down at me with the compassion/practicality combo that was her trademark.
MaryJanice Davidson
#90. Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer
#91. Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it.
Kristen Ashley
#92. Let your life be a vivacious poetry of love, compassion, kindness, and beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched by HIV with compassion and acceptance. These laws respect universal human rights and they are grounded in evidence.
Shereen El Feki
#94. Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.
Rohinton Mistry
#95. Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.
Laozi
#96. True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.
Dalai Lama
#97. I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory.
Augusten Burroughs
#98. Nothing beats having a genuine compassion for human souls. If there is one thing I know, it's that people want to be acknowledged; they want to be heard; and above all, they want to be appreciated.
Sasha Azevedo
#99. We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.
Charles Bass
#100. Remember that most people, human or cryptid, don't like what they don't understand. They're not wired for that kind of compassion. Feel sorry for them, unless they form an angry mob and march on your house. When that happens, release the hounds. - Evelyn Baker
Seanan McGuire
