Compassion Quotes · Page 61

It's man's sympathy, with all Gods creatures, that makes him truly a man.

— Albert Einstein

“Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take.”

— Liza M. Wiemer

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

— Dalai Lama

“If you are nothing else in this life, be wise, be compassionate, and be strong because those three are everything”

— Kristen Ashley

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

— Anne Sexton

Take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others.

— Senora Roy

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

— Theodore White

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

— Stephen Levine

The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the…

— Kedar Joshi

“Sometimes, we’re so... we’re so bloody concerned with doing the things everyone expects us to do, we forget that in the end…

— M.J. Lawless

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation,…

— Helen Keller

Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And…

— Anonymous

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life…

— Tim Winton

Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees,…

— Frederick Lenz

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

— Colm Wilkinson

“Live a good life. More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”

— Roy Bennett

“They thought they were employing an economy-saving doctrine of situational leniency, but they somehow failed to understand that by coming up with…

— Matt Taibbi

When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words…

— Matthew Scully

I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone...…

— Brennan Manning

“It would be good," thought Prince Andrei, glancing at the little image that his sister had hung around his neck with such…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There’s a trendy phrase making the rounds among intellectuals these days: compassion fatigue. We’ve just grown so tired of caring so much…

— Stan Goff

My book is going to be called Against Empathy, which may give you a feeling for where my argument is going to…

— Paul Bloom

“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's…

— Milan Kundera

“When you acted on principle tempered by compassion, there was sooner or later always someone with a saw. He”

— Dean Koontz

When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

— Nellie L. McClung

The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.

— Brimstone

For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.

— Gautama Buddha

“True beauty in a woman is reflected in the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows.”

— Audrey Hepburn

We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Caring for God's endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience.

— Ted Malloch

Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.

— John Cassavetes

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

— Thad Cochran

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

— William Blake

I mean, she's giving and caring and genuinely concerned about the welfare of others. I can't be with someone like that.

— Jerry Seinfeld

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

— Frederick William Robertson

“Men like you should be left to the mercy of women like me.”

— Sam J. Charlton

The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.

— Warren W. Wiersbe

When you win, you can afford to be gracious, you can afford to have a little more mercy.

— Nina Turner