Compassionate Quotes

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

Life, Strong, Young

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Phil Jackson

Mind, Heart, Keep

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost

Great, Heart, Truly

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.
Joel Osteen

Positive, Dad, Him

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Chanakya

Mind, Heart, Speech

There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.
Angelina Jolie

Director, Motherhood, Asking

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
Thomas Sowell

Time, Political, Caring

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
Rita Mae Brown

Women, Beautiful, Strong

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Country, America, Place

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Government, Future, Society

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Country, America, Place

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
Karen Armstrong

Religion, Ego, Give

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
Morrie Schwartz

Best, Live, Wait

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
Adrienne Rich

Children, Often, Mothers

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.
Cat Stevens

Best, Human, Fact

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
Elton John

Love, Work, Religion

I think it's really important that the people who are going to make decisions for other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just some people.
Sharon Stone

Important, Decisions, Fair

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.
Dennis Prager

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson

Same, Virtuous, Ought

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.
Dave Grohl

Life, Love, Different

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.
John Mayer

Time, Stupid, Deep

We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.
Katherine Heigl

Human, Giving, Another

I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
Barry Williams

Love, Positive, Yourself

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'
Ricky Williams

Strength, Compassion, While

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
Harry Browne

Mind, Others, Compassion

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
Karen Armstrong

Time, Good, Great

It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don't think the movie would work otherwise.
Diane Kruger

Work, Impossible, Her

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
Theodore Bikel

God, Human, Toward

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

Moral, Concerned, Truly

America is a giving nation and very compassionate.
David Wilkerson

Giving, America, Nation

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