Quotes

Compassion is the basis of morality.
-Arnold Schopenhauer

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
-Henry Ward Beecher

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
-William Cowper

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

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

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

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

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

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
-Anne McCaffrey

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
-HH the Dalai Lama

He who feels no compassion will become insane.
-Hasidic Proverb

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

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

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 should have no compassion on these witches, I should burn them all.
-Martin Luther

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
-George W. Bush

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

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton

God saith, Verily my compassion overcometh my wrath.
-Anonymous Author

Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
-Bible

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
-Giovanni Boccaccio

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

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

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.
-Everett Dirksen

The dew of compassion is a tear.
-Lord Byron

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

The major block to compassion is the judgment in our minds. Judgment is the mind's primary tool of separation.
-Diane Berke

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. - The Philosophy of Civilization.
-Albert Schweitzer

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.
-Everett Dirksen

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

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

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

Let your secret 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

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.
-St. Francis