Quotes about Compassion
Guide humbly.Guide happily.Guide hopefully.Guide honorably.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest leaders are the greatest servants.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
— Mark Twain
The ultimate lesson is learning how to love and be loved unconditionally.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
— Henri Nouwen
The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.
— Melody Beattie
Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.
— Pema Chodron
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
— Mark Twain
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
— George Eliot
We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
— Jesse Jackson
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
— Abraham Lincoln
Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.
— St. John Chrysostom