Compassion Quotes

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— Anonymous

“Be the compassion you seek.”

— Bryant McGill

Return animosity with virtue.

— Laozi

With knowing comes caring.

— Sylvia Earle

I cry for those not yet dead.

— Frank Herbert

Volunteers are caring friends

— Don Williams

There's a power in empathy.

— Tarana Burke

“Go on caring for me.”

— Franz Kafka

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

— Anonymous

“Patience has all the time it needs.”

— Allan Lokos

Yoga has given me more compassion for my imperfections.

— Mandy Ingber

Compassion doesn't weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.

— Rudy Giuliani

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

— John Cornyn

We need more spontaneous compassion and charity.

— Glenn L. Pace

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

— Giovanni Boccaccio

Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads

— Charles Sprague

I think it's all about people loving each other and having compassion, accepting one another and educating themselves.

— Normani Kordei

“We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again”

— Sharon Salzberg

You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.

— Isabelle Huppert

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

— Francis Schaeffer

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

— Cheri Huber

In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of…

— Ian McDonald

“But, sire, I implore your mercy, for I am innocent." "Your”

— Anonymous

To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.

— Laozi

As you consider your life, consider how good and faithful God has been to you! His love grace and mercy endures forever!…

— Anonymous

The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate…

— Nhat Hanh

“The fourth gift is Compassion. May you be gentle with yourself and others. May you forgive those who hurt you and yourself…

— Charlene Costanzo

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright,…

— Helen Gurley Brown

“Zeus’s line may be powerful, but even Zeus was helpless against Eros. Unless you’d like me to take you into the men’s…

— Jenna Black

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the…

— Kelly McCreary

“Let Go of the Rice In a world that lives like a fist mercy is no more than waking with your hands…

— Mark Nepo

I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you…

— Jack Kornfield

“Sometimes, in your battle with unbelief, your greatest ally will wrestle you—he might even make you limp—until you’re desperate enough to say,…

— Jon Bloom

On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The Romans, who so coolly and so concisely mention the acts of justice which were exercised by the legions, reserve their compassion…

— Edward Gibbon

One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed…

— John O'Donohue

“I bear my witness that the worst days I have ever had have turned out to be my best days. And when…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

If attachment is the conditioning factor, then non-attachment will become the unconditioning factor. If expectation leads you in misery, then non-expectation will…

— Rajneesh