Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hillary Clinton

I have more understanding, more compassion. I am on a much more important quest for the truth than any of you. You just don't want me to be president.

Ezra Koenig

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

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.

George Eliot

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her face. She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her embarrassment. The knowledge that they were behaving as if they were sweethearts was even more embarrassing, and the knowledge that they were both embarrassed embarrassed them so much that Captain Samaritano noticed it with a tremor of compassion.

Franz Schubert

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Chrissy Teigen

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

George Soros

We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in Bosnia.

Francis of Assisi

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

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

Helen Keller

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

George Eliot

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

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.

It's a good relationship. He is extremely good at securing clientele, and I think that's because of his compassion with them. Then he can handle the press, while I handle the case.

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.

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

It's obvious that our first reaction was of solidarity and compassion,

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.

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.

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.

Kristin Hannah

The measure of a society is its compassion.

Milton Friedman

If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.

Mike DeWine

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

Invoke the Mercy of God and as milk returns not to the udder go not back to your wrongdoing." "Have compassion on yourself and on others and Infinite Compassion will be given to you." "In the name of Allah, All-Merciful, All Compassionate, bestow on me a Mercy that shall put me beyond the need of mercy from any other than Thee.

Karen Walker

God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

Julian Baggini

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

Krista Tippett

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.