Compassion Quotes

"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

"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"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

"My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"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

"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"Compassion is contempt with a human face"

John McCarthy, Politician

"It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion"

Julian Bond, Activist

"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

"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

"Compassion is a two way street"

Frank Capra, Director

"In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future"

Brad Henry, Politician

"Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men"

David O. McKay, Clergyman

"Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion"

Major Owens, Politician

"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural"

John Berger, Artist

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

Francis Schaeffer, Theologian

"Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated"

Brad Henry, Politician

"Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

"Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will"

William Cowper, Poet

"A king who rules with justice and compassion will be loved by his people and feared by his enemies"

Philip IV, Royalty

"For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again"

Paula Cole, Musician

"I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice"

Mike DeWine, Politician

"Compassion is not a popular virtue"

Karen Armstrong, Writer

"When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might"

Tea Leoni, Actress

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