Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Levant

When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.

Oprah Winfrey

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

Olivia Wilde

Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

Kenny Loggins

The more we stretch the muscle called compassion and generosity, the stronger we get, the better we feel about ourselves, the more loving we become to the world around us.

Margaret Cho

Humanity is a natural foil for inhumanity, and humanity is what will ultimately keep us going when all else has failed.

Margaret Atwood

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

Lucinda Williams

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

Liv Ullmann

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

Margaret Oliphant

imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind ...

Nick Rahall

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.

Patti Smith

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.

Patti Smith

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

Paul Bloom

It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.

Paul Bloom

People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals, and some do not care at all. There are cultural differences.

Matthew Fox

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

Matthew Fox

Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.

Martha Beck

Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

Marianne Williamson

Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.

Christopher Darden

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

Christina Baldwin

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Chris Matthews

Pope John Paul II spoke with a lot of clarity and consistency. But he always spoke with immense compassion. He's the one who said the best way to love somebody is to tell them the truth. So, he did that well.

George Saunders

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

Miguel de Cervantes

Fair and softly goes far.

Edward de Bono

Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.

Eckhart Tolle

Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Terry Pratchett

YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.

Tom Rath

Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope.

Simone Weil

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

Sri Chinmoy

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

Sri Chinmoy

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.