Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Kris Carr

Isn’t it time you gave yourself a healthy dose of self-love? The fact is, you deserve it. You are a magnificent, radiant being. You are divine. And you are awesome. The sooner you start embracing that and treating yourself accordingly, the sooner your life will begin to unfold with compassion, purpose, ease, health, and vitality.

Kim Delaney

I would say I have compassion.

Kim Harrison

A compassion swirled form nowhere in the high I was lost in. She needed me. She needed me to accept her for what she was. And when I realized that I had it within myself to give her at least this small part of me, the last of my fear melted away.

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.

Natasha Lyonne

I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

Muhammad Ali

I have not lost [Allah's] hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the most difficult of circumstances. We as Muslims must lead by example

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

Mark Victor Hansen

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.

Naomi Shihab Nye

I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair, crooked toes. I support those who have done nothing large.

Nadine Gordimer

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

Patch Adams

If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate .. (but) I can have a 100 percent compassion rate,'.

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.

Ben Stein

Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place- science leads you to killing people.

Bernie Siegel

God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion

Peter McWilliams

If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take part in theirs, as long as they do not harm the person or property of a non-consenting other, of course. IT'S JUST common sense. It's also constitutional and it forms the cornerstone of the American ideal: free individual expression, tolerance and compassion.

Paulo Coelho

Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.

Prince

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

Philip Yancey

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.