Compassion Quotes

Welcome to Compassion Quotes, your source for motivational and also uplifting words of knowledge. Here you will certainly discover a collection of quotes from some of the globe's most influential people, consisting of writers, theorists, as well as spiritual leaders. Whether you are searching for a quote to inspire you, to bring a smile to your face, or to aid you through a challenging time, you will certainly locate something right here to motivate you. Allow these quotes remind you of the power of compassion and also the relevance of generosity in our lives.
Small: Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark
"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding"
Louis Gerstner, Businessman
Small: I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself
Desmond Tutu
"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
Small: The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty
Samuel Johnson
"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty"
Samuel Johnson, Author
Small: Make no judgements where you have no compassion
Anne McCaffrey
"Make no judgements where you have no compassion"
Anne McCaffrey, Author
Small: However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight tha
"However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it"
Joseph Butler, Clergyman
Small: Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compa
"Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced"
Nick Rahall, Politician
Small: They werent impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion.
"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George"
Audrey Meadows, Actress
Small: I just dont know that shame and fear need to be our teachers rather, compassion, understanding, and love shoul
Kyan Douglas
"I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides"
Kyan Douglas, Celebrity
Small: Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion
"Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion"
Charles Colson, Lawyer
Small: Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of tr
"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true"
Leonard Cohen, Musician
Small: I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures
Lao Tzu
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures"
Lao Tzu, Author
Small: Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation
Henry Ward Beecher
"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation"
Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman
Small: Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace
Albert Schweitzer
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
Small: I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compa
Albert Schweitzer
"I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
Small: Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and th
Albert Einstein
"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
Small: Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men
Confucius
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men"
Confucius, Philosopher
Small: Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain rel
Eric Hoffer
"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
Small: Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us
Eric Hoffer
"Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
Small: I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered
Maya Angelou
"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water"
Maya Angelou, Poet
Small: Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves
"Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves"
Mason Cooley, Writer
Small: The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, w
"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another"
Thomas Merton, Author
Small: The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
Small: Compassion is the basis of morality
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Compassion is the basis of morality"
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher
Small: Compassion is no substitute for justice
Rush Limbaugh
"Compassion is no substitute for justice"
Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer
Small: A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying
"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion"
Georg Brandes, Critic
Small: A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm d
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
Small: As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve per
Ursula K. Le Guin
"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope"
Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer
Small: It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope
Ursula K. Le Guin
"It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope"
Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer
Small: Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nations promise through civility, courage, compassion and cha
George W. Bush
"Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character"
George W. Bush, President
Small: You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion
"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion"
Meister Eckhart, Philosopher
Small: The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery
"The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery"
Joseph Butler, Clergyman
Small: Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we
"Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed"
Joseph Butler, Clergyman
Small: Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food"
Joseph Butler, Clergyman
Small: I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage
Hubert H. Humphrey
"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known"
Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician
Small: Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism
Hubert H. Humphrey
"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism"
Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician
Small: I do it because I want to exercise peoples compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reaso
Kyra Sedgwick
"I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful"
Kyra Sedgwick, Actress
Small: Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool
"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool"
Andre Maurois, Writer
Small: If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then ha
Dalai Lama
"If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion"
Dalai Lama, Leader
Small: Dont ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion
Dalai Lama
"Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength"
Dalai Lama, Leader
Small: Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, th
"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love"
Stevie Wonder, Musician
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