Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Patrick Renn

He was facing a great number of years, regardless. But I think this does show some compassion on the part of the jury.

Richard Davidson

I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.

Richard Rohr

The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.

William Hogarth

I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.

William Blum

Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

Tracee Ellis Ross

I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

Saul Alinsky

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

Said Nursi

Life is a manifestation of unity.

Dalai Lama

We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.

Dalai Lama

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves.

Dalai Lama

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

Dalai Lama

If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.

Dalai Lama

The more we feel concern for others and seek their well-being, the more friends we will have and the more welcome we will feel.

Dalai Lama

Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of problems for ourselves. Encountering those problems, anger develops and overwhelms our mind, which leads to violence. A good way to counter this and to work for a more peaceful world is to develop concern for others. Then our anger, jealousy and other destructive emotions will naturally weaken and diminish.

Dalai Lama

The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others.

Woodrow Wilson

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

Samuel Beckett

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

Twyla Tharp

To embrace luck, you have to enhance your tolerance for ambiguity.

Wendell Willkie

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

Wolfgang Schauble

Those who constantly qualify everything and have no opinions of their own are ultimately just as incapable of tolerance.

Jose Serrano

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

Narendra Modi

The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.

James Joyce

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.