Compassionate Quotes · Page 11

Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

— Robin Williams

“spirit gives us the power to think and act, to be caring and compassionate or petty and cruel”

— Bryan Lankford

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

— Richard Dawkins

“Being compassionate can be an exciting exercise of embracing life if you let it be.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic.

— Stephanie Zacharek

It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

— Robin Williams

We want to build a compassionate and truly democratic Singapore where good values and people matter.

— Tan Cheng Bock

The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.

— Stella Young

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

— Michele Bachmann

“Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be…

— Harry Browne

We will treat everyone living or residing in our country with great dignity. So important. We will be fair, just, and compassionate…

— Donald Trump

I was lucky with my parents, for my mom and my dad particularly, much more than my mom, who was very compassionate…

— Shep Gordon

Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.

— Robert Thurman

Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around…

— Eve Ensler

“Come my friend. Come and walk with me in the path ahead that awaits you with open arms – the path of…

— Abhijit Naskar

Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to…

— Rajneesh

If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But…

— Pico Iyer

I appreciate zeal and energy and passion but in our zeal, we just need to do it in a loving way and…

— Greg Laurie

I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I used to be ashamed by the way that I grew up. I tried to lie my way through better times, but…

— George Lopez

The fascinating thing about Game of Thrones is that none of the badasses are just badasses, and none of the wimps are…

— Pedro Pascal

Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even…

— Johann Arndt

“Being kind costs us nothing - not being kind will cost us everything.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Though the heart cannot be seen, it can be kind, pure, compassionate and loving.”

— Master Jun Hong Lu

“You're a big sister?' I was shocked. She seemed so good-natured and compassionate.”

— Natalie Standiford

“A compassionate concern for others’ well-being is the source of happiness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness.”

— Gary Hopkins

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

— Armistead Maupin

The pain and the suffering that I went through made me an activist. It made me stronger; it made me more compassionate.

— Lecrae

If we are going to be compassionate, we have to have stricter border security and laws.

— Paula White

“A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.”

— Shannon L. Alder

When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

— Paul the Apostle

To be compassionate in this hurting world means it will cost you something.

— Wess Stafford

“Yes, I cannot dispute that she is crazy. But she is also compassionate.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When refugees are at a distance it's easy to be compassionate.

— Nish Kumar

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

— Richard Rohr

“To be compassionate, you have to forget your own comfort zone and live well because you live beyond yourself.”

— Sunday Adelaja