Compassion Quotes

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
- Buddha

I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
- Anonymous Author

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.
- Bishop Desmond

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.
- Thomas Aquinas

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
- Eric Hoffer

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

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more humane world.
- Martin Lowenthal

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.
- William Wordsworth