Compassion Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Compassion
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
When we hate our enemies, we are
giving them power over us:
power over our sleep, our appetites,
our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
Our enemies would dance with joy if only
they knew how they were worrying us,
lacerating us, and getting even with us!
Our hate is not hurting them at all,
but our hate is turning our own days
and nights into a hellish turmoil.
- Dale Carnegie
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The vast Cathedral of Your Being
becomes sanctuary for all creation
as you celebrate the universal sacraments
of compassion and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
Whether one believes in a religion or not,
and whether one believes in rebirth or not,
there isn't anyone who doesn't
appreciate kindness and compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We receive this food in gratitude to all beings
Who have helped to bring it to our table,
And vow to respond in turn to those in need
With wisdom and compassion.
- Buddhist Blessing
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein
I have compassion for everyone who has ever
been a player upon the stage of my life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God has given us two hands, one to receive with
and the other to give with.
- Billy Graham
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No one is to be called an enemy,
all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm.
You have no enemy except yourselves.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
I CHOOSE with courage, awareness, consciousness,
and compassion toward all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cause ourselves untold misery whenever we believe
others to be imperfect and try to change them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
It is hard to interest those who have everything,
in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller
I choose acceptance and compassion toward all humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I choose to bless another person,
I will always end up feeling more blessed.
- Marianne Williamson
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
I am the master of my emotions -
I transform fear to love, anger to compassion,
pain to comfort, scarcity to abundance,
expectation to gratitude, and jealousy to generosity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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