Quotes About Compassion

I'm an honorary ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer, and I'm also associated with St. Jude's.

Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others.

I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.

Immigration is about more than just who comes here and who is allowed to stay. It is about who we are as a country and what we are willing to stand up for.

I've always had a 'stand up for the people' type of personality.

I'll always stand up for America's seniors so they can age with dignity.

I was raised to stand up for the little guy, for working families and the middle class.

As adults, we have a legal and moral obligation to stand up and speak out for children who are being abused - they cannot speak for themselves.

Britain is a nation proud to stand up for what is right and is generous in helping those in need.

When are we going to see the rest of the world stand up for Muslims?

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

That's what hurts the environmental movement - holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.

In the same way that I cannot be perfect and need grace for my mistakes, I also need to give my kids grace. I am constantly learning to be patient with them, understanding that they won't do everything right all the time, while still holding them to a high standard, as their heavenly father does.

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.

The best thing they've told me is to be forgiving of yourself as a mother. I think you go into it, and you want to hold yourself to the highest standards, and you want to be perfect. That's not possible. You make mistakes and learn.

I think that I set such high standards for myself that sometimes I expect other people to live up to these standards, and it's not fair because they're not setting the same goals for themselves.

Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

Every member of Congress is sent to Washington to represent all of their constituents, regardless of their age, race, social standing, or sexual orientation, and I believe that America should be a place where everybody can dream, and nobody is left out.

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw children lined up like prisoners. They had been separated from their families and put in this private detention facility. It was horrible.

I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights.

Being 'pro-life' means standing up for all life, valuing all life.