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Quotes About Compassion

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business
~ Ann Landers
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
~ Gilbert Parker
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
~ Anna Sewell
It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.
~ Anton Chekhov
Being a good human being is good business.
~ Paul Hawken
Your needs will be met once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's need.
~ Stuart Wilde
The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
~ Tony Snow
A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.
~ Unknown
Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.
~ Charles Dickens
We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.
~ Pema Chodron
There's such an emphasis on making money that we've really taken the humanity out of business.
~ Paul Tudor Jones
We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.
~ Craig Newmark
When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.
~ Blake Mycoskie
What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion is also good for business?
~ Chade-Meng Tan
My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.
~ Walt Disney
In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.
~ Peter Asher
I preume there are far too many abortions performed in this country. And I also believe that at the end of the day, as much as I might disapprove, none of them are really any of my business.
~ Dennis Miller
After the tsunami in Japan, we were open for business. In fact, I flew there 10 days after the tsunami to show our support for the Japanese people.
~ Jamie Dimon
What people have to say is none of my business. They all have their own issues that make them say and do whatever they need to do.
~ Unknown
I'm not in the being-annoyed business.
~ Jim Lehrer
Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.
~ Julius Rosenwald
We are able to help animals all around the world as a result of the media and entertainment business, which is able to spread compassion and change at rapid speed.
~ Katie Cleary