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Quotes About Compassion

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.
~ Joan Chen
Simple people have much to offer. We, too, in return, must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must, with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve.
~ Simin Daneshvar
Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid.
~ Cat Cora
The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.
~ Cynthia McKinney
The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.
~ George Osborne
I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I'm hoping I can offer an example.
~ Mohnish Pabrai
There's a love that I want to continue to offer people. And, I hope I can offer people that love through the art.
~ Grace Gealey
A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.
~ Meriwether Lewis
Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.
~ Glennon Doyle Melton
There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.
~ Ron Perlman
I keep getting offered these women-with-a-disease things.
~ Geraldine Page
There was a while where every role I was getting offered was extremely noble - like the judge or the kindly nurse.
~ John Cho
I hope I can use everything that's being offered to me to do good in other people's lives.
~ Spencer Stone
It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
Just a look at the face of the officer kneeling on George Floyd's neck is indicative of the cause behind what he was doing. His face showed no concern.
~ Isaac Wright Jr.
My heart goes out to the families of our fallen officers.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
I think that there are real concerns that we have around whose life is important and why. So if the official story is, for example, somebody was running from the police, does their life matter?
~ Alicia Garza
I do believe that the majority of elected officials worked very hard and their heart is in the right place.
~ Mike Quigley
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
~ Bede Jarrett
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
~ William Bennett
I am oftentimes the ear for some people that I know and love. Which I like being. I don't know if I'd like being a marriage counselor, though, because that's too deep for me.
~ Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
~ Moliere
Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.
~ Sojourner Truth
In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in their lives, and suddenly, an act of kindness. It's like, 'Oh, God! Heartbreaking!'
~ Andrew Haigh