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
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa 
We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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
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.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Let your sympathies and your compassion
be always with the under dog in the fight -
this is magnanimity;
but bet on the other one - this is business.
- Mark Twain
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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
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
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
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
Until he extends the circle of
his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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 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
Recall a recent time when someone was strongly critical
of your opinions (perhaps your political or religious beliefs).
Now, put yourself in their shoes - with compassion.
Try to understand and appreciate their point-of-view -
not to change your own opinions,
but to celebrate all our human differences - in peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is hard to interest those who have everything,
in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller
The key to happiness is inner peace.
The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions
such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion,
while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility
are the sources of peace and happiness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
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
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
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
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
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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
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
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike.
Each has their suffering.
Some suffer too much, others too little.
- The Buddha
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love is the absence of judgment.
- 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
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
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
The greatness of a nation can be judged
by the way its animals are treated.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
A person experiences life as
something separated from the rest -
a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
Our task must be to free ourselves
from this self-imposed prison,
and through compassion,
to find the reality of Oneness.
- Albert Einstein
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
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
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
Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake
is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
If in our daily life we can smile,
if we can be peaceful and happy,
not only we, but everyone will profit from it.
This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous
The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,
but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
- Mother Teresa
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