Quotes About Compassion

Unless someone is suicidal or otherwise on the brink, deciding how much he should know about himself seems the quintessence of arrogance. What attitude could be more disrespectful of those we care about?

There is at least a billion people in this world, who would consider their prayers answered if they could switch places with you.

Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics—by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.

Identity must start with humanity as a founding principle, and human rights as a basis.

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

Sports have a way of touching people.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made

Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.

My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.

A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility

I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.

In compassion lies the world's true strength.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.