Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Schubert

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Chrissy Teigen

She [Hillary Clinton] exudes leadership, confidence and - importantly - empathy, compassion, and understanding.

Francis of Assisi

Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.

Ian Somerhalder

It's the coolest thing - showing young, bright, and creative people that compassion and a compassionate life is the richest way to live. When you live that life, you create progress, productivity, and innovation.

Ian Somerhalder

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion

Howard Zinn

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

Hosea Ballou

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

He's very strategic, has a lot of compassion for children, and we just love him,

Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee

Sydney Smith

A Curate - there is something which excites compassion in the very name of a Curate!!!

So much good will come from this, and good will come from this because of the extraordinary compassion of the human spirit,

Cindy Sheehan

These so-called women have no maternal instinct or compassion for the people that their policies have killed.

Together, we will not fail Oregonians, ... Oregon will be prepared, and they will receive the competence and compassion from government they should expect.

Jim McDermott

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system, ... But it has to have some compassion.

Everett Dirksen

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion

I know the compassion that these people have. But from listening here tonight the main issues I hear are quantity. But I'm most concerned about quality. This ordinance is not intended to go after people like you. This is intended for people not following the rules.

It's unrealistic to think every player could come. We're very pleased with the support we've gotten from the players, their overall compassion for the city. Many have contributed financially.

The nourishment of our souls comes from the smiles of others.

Tim Russert

there was a perception created of incompetence, some even said callousness and he needs to replace it with compassion.

Antonio Tarver

It's really a slap in the face to all those who have pumped him up and glorified him all these years and that's the media, ... He shows no compassion for the sport - the sport that made him a wealthy man, an icon. Shame on him.

Camilo Cela

For a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.

I hope they know that the people on our street sincerely feel so much compassion for them.

Sathya Baba

Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

If you publicize a problem but do nothing about it, what you produce is compassion fatigue. You get a lot of reports about these disasters, but nothing ever changes. Just publicity by itself is not nearly enough.

Sathya Baba

If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God.

Ernest Renan

Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.

Frank Herbert

I cry for those not yet dead.

Guru Nanak

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

Moby

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.

Karl Marx

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Jules Verne

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

Kristin Hannah

The measure of a society is its compassion.