Quotes About Compassion

Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.

I hope you don't listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.

One thing it makes me realize is just how similar we all are, around the globe. The details may be different, but every human heart is touched by themes like hope, comfort and mercy.

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.

I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.

People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.

Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.

I hope I stand for antibigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism. This is what drives me.

Even the smallest thing can be enough to encourage someone who has decided to give up hope.

So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

I use the word power broadly. Even more important than military and economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

I hope nobody I wrote about becomes too upset.

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.

Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a small thing that an artist can do sometimes.

With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.