Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Camus

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Annie Besant

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

Annie Lennox

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Dylan McDermott

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

Dorothea Dix

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

Dorothea Dix

in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.

Andrew Sarris

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

Ann Patchett

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

Andrea Thompson

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

Anthony Daniels

Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.

Anthony de Mello

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.

Anne Rice

That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.

Alice Walker

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

Alyssa Milano

I remind myself of the power of thought and how it's my obligation as a citizen (and student) of humanity to propel compassion.

Allen West

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

Alexander Pope

In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

Albert Schweitzer

If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.

Albert Schweitzer

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

Debbie Ford

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

Debbie Ford

Compassion allows us to understand that, as citizens of the planet, we’re all in this together and that in order to ensure our survival we must hold and cultivate a new and larger vision of what’s possible for ourselves and for the human race as a whole.

Donald Trump

We will be fair, just, and compassionate to all, but our greatest compassion must be for our American citizens.

Dorothy Gilman

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

Dalai Lama

When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.

Dalai Lama

The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion.

Dalai Lama

One scientist had discussions about love and compassion. Usually, he felt irritation. After our meeting, for some months, anger never come.

Dalai Lama

Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.

Dalai Lama

Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.

Dalai Lama

So long as space remains So long as sentient beings' Suffering remains I will remain In order to help, In order to serve.

Dalai Lama

One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

Dalai Lama

On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.

Dalai Lama

Compassion seems to be the greatest power.

Dalai Lama

I always believed in love, compassion, and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.

Dalai Lama

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.