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Quotes About Compassion

The more you care, the stronger you can be.
~ Jim Rohn
I'm one of those people who feels like I have to be strong for those people who may not be able to find that strength. I feel like I have to speak up for those people whose voices go unheard.
~ Ibtihaj Muhammad
Real strength entails being considerate and supportive of people's feelings.
~ Mary Kay Ash
Never let a person's weakness get in the way of their strength.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.
~ Jackson Katz
The greatest strength a man can achieve is gentleness.
~ Monty Roberts
Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
~ Starhawk
If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.
~ Sri Chinmoy
If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.
~ Austin Carlile
Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
~ Dalai Lama
Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.
~ Joan Halifax
Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.
~ Sai Baba
Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.
~ Sadhu Sundar Singh
Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.
~ Guy Finley
The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
~ Christian D. Larson
We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.
~ Swami Vivekananda
It's so easy to laugh, It's so easy to hate, It takes guts to be gentle and kind.
~ Steven Morrissey
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
The weak can never forgive.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength
~ Dalai Lama
I find that when I am involved in the business of life, when I'm working with people, particularly with children, I feel better. A kind of strength and energy comes with that.
~ Thea Bowman
Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all
~ Benjamin Franklin