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Quotes About Compassion

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.
~ Nhat Hanh
What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women.
~ Elaine A. Cannon
How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.
~ Sting
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.
~ Steven Erikson
Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others.
~ Irene Hunt
Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.
~ Joseph Addison
The courage to care about your people, your clients, and your career.
~ David Maister
We need moral leadership and courage in our world.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
Courage to be who you are is the cousin of loving the Divine, yourself and others.
~ Robert V. Taylor
Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy
~ Max Lucado
To do something you're afraid of, especially for the sake of somebody else, is the very definition of courage.
~ Michelle Harrison, One Wish
Sharing your story is a courageous step towards healing your own heart.
~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell
A change of heart is the essence of all other change and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.
~ Unknown
Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.
~ Jean Paul Richter
It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.
~ Bindi Irwin
Bruno: "Why do you wear pajamas all day?" Shmuel: "The soldiers. They took all our clothes away." Bruno: "My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away."
~ John Boyne
Even with my daughter now, I kind of know how my dad feels.
~ Jeff Hardy
I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'
~ Frank McCourt
My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.
~ Tiger Woods