Compassion Quotes

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

Love, Humanity, Cannot

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama

Love, Daily, Important

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

Happy, Others, Practice

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

Beauty, Nature, Living

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

Love, Teacher, Mother

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.
Dalai Lama

Religion, Kindness, Anyone

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu

Patience, Greatest, Three

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius

Men, Courage, Wisdom

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

Person, Him, Give

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
Ellen DeGeneres

Equality, Kindness, Honesty

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck

Mother, Become, Until

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Socialism, Weakness, Concern

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
Francis of Assisi

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
Eminem

Mother, Understand, Definitely

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
Martin Scorsese

Live, Kindness, Looking

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

Life, Love, Friendship

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

Love, Today, Revenge

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
Deepak Chopra

Love, Beauty, Leadership

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Nelson Mandela

Hope, Future, Human

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
Shania Twain

Life, Trust, Emotional

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
Mitt Romney

Good, Freedom, Waiting

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Help, Human

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Frederick Buechner

Peace, Knowledge, Live

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

Living, Ethics, Full

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

Love, Family, Mother

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

Someone, Himself, Rights

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Anthony de Mello

Work, Religion, Politics

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
Ellen DeGeneres

Love, Powerful, Kindness

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

Love, Dreams, Computers

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