Quotes About Having Compassion For Others

#1. Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down ...

George McGovern

#2. Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.

Kevin Rudd

#3. Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

Charles Colson

#4. Attain complete emptiness,
Hold fast to stillness.
Understanding the ordinary:
Mind opens.
Mind opening leads to compassion,
Compassion to nobility,
Nobility to heavenliness,
Heavenliness to TAO.
TAO endures.
Your body dies.
There is no danger.

Lao-Tzu

#5. It is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering

Radhe Maa

#6. Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion to the most harmless and helpless of those who live at our mercy in the visible realms.

Norm Phelps

#7. Every person whose heart is moved by love and compassion, who deeply and sincerely acts for the benefit of others without concern for fame, profit, social position, or recognition expresses the activity of Chenrezig.

Bokar Rinpoche

#8. Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

Brad Warner

#9. I hope I would leave a legacy of joy -a legacy of real compassion,

Rich Mullins

#10. There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable.

Rumi

#11. We must give each other the chance to change.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#13. Some people consider the practice of love and compassion is only related to religious practice and if they are not interested in religion they neglect these inner values. But love and compassion are qualities that human beings require just to live together.

Dalai Lama

#14. Worship that does not lead to neighborly compassion and justice cannot be faithful worship of YHWH. The offer is a phony Sabbath!

Walter Brueggemann

#15. Compassion is not only relevant to those who are blameless victims, but also to those whose suffering stems from failures, personal weakness, or bad decisions. You know, the kind you and I make every day. Compassion,

Kristin Neff

#16. . . .three percent of all males are deemed to be antisocial and without conscience, while only one percent of females seem to lack compassion for others. But the icy manipulations of that one percent are utterly fascinating. No one can be crueler than a woman without a conscience.

Ann Rule

#17. Let's get loose with Compassion. Let's drown in the delicious ambience of Love.

Hafez

#18. Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#19. Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#20. Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion.

Karen Armstrong

#21. Because they have shamefully trampled underfoot the grace of God, they have forfeited all rights to compassion.

Daniel I. Block

#22. I choose kindness ... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

Max Lucado

#23. More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

Paul D. Boyer

#24. Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

Maya Angelou

#25. Use your voice for good in this world, it may not seem like it's getting you anywhere, but in the end good wins.

Heather Wolf

#26. Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#27. A seed cannot grow in stone. It requires fertile soil, air, water, and sunlight. Compassion is like the fertile soil where life grows.

Amit Ray

#28. By serving humanity, I automatically serve myself.

Vironika Tugaleva

#29. I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.

Laozi

#30. You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.

Ann Voskamp

#31. May the Lord grant you tender kind heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. Let yourself rediscover peace in your heart. And, from that secure place, meet whatever comes.

Stephanie Dowrick

#33. Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.

Sharon Salzberg

#34. Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

Anne Lamott