Quotes About Compassion

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

The great presidents are people who watch out for others.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.

The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.

Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart.

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg is a great book teaching a compassionate way to talk to people even if you (or they) are angry.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there's no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.