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Quotes About Compassion

Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.
~ Basil Moreau
Real strength has to do with helping others.
~ Fred Rogers
We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.
~ Nhat Hanh
I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.
~ Brenda Shaughnessy
Your greatest strength is love. Your greatest weakness is fear.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.
~ Brigham Young
Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.
~ Dalai Lama
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.
~ Dalai Lama
It's great to be strong but strength is nothing without having compassion.
~ Terry Crews
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
It can be the most difficult thing to do, but love conquers fear and love conquers hate and this love that you choose will give you strength and it's our greatest power.
~ Katy Perry
We are one another's strength.
~ T. B. Joshua
The greatest antidote to insecurity & sense of fear is compassion. It brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength.
~ Dalai Lama
True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
~ Meher Baba
The world is not interested in what we do for a living. What they are interested in is what we have to offer freely - hope, strength, love and the power to make a difference!
~ Sasha Azevedo
If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.
~ Oliver Sacks
Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.
~ Mother Teresa
As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.
~ Susan Jeffers
There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.
~ Mother Teresa
There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
~ William Shakespeare
You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.
~ D. J. MacHale
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.
~ Mother Teresa