Quotes About Compassion

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

I believe the people of Wisconsin elected me because I said I will work with anyone - doesn't matter if they're a Republican or a Democrat - I just want to get things done for Wisconsin families. But I also believe Wisconsinites elected me because I will always put people before politics.

I don't think Wisconsin should become known as a state where we shoot cats.

Never find fault with the absent.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.

You've got to be wise and take care of yourself and those around you.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

Care more than others think wise.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

I want to encourage all Missourians to make wise decisions, love your neighbors and support each other in every way you can.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.

We generally pretend to be something to survive in a society. So the characters I play, I want them to be wholesome characters. They are not necessarily the most wise people, but they do have a heart and soul.

My mom is an exceptionally wise and kind person.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

If I meet a wise person, I think, 'Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me more about how to be a decent person living in a world that's filled with chaos.'

Larry Kramer wisely realized so early on that to change the world, people have to know you. If they know you and see that we are all the same - that we all have normal hearts - that's the first step. I'm both amazed at the progress and amazed at how far we have to go.

There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.

Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.