Quotes About Compassion

That is what we stand for - for an America that is every bit as compassionate as it is exceptional.

Being a mom has made me a better person. It's made me more compassionate. It's just awesome. I think I was put here to be a mom.

You meet people in the business and wonder how compassionate they are.

We're a compassionate nation.

We are a compassionate society.

If you're not catfishing someone for romantic reasons, then it's going to be hard to sympathize and be compassionate with someone who is doing it for revenge, who's doing it for fun and games, who's doing it because they want to be on TV.

One thing is for sure: that women are far more compassionate, empathetic, sensitive, and emotional in comparison to men.

If we are going to be compassionate, we have to have stricter border security and laws.

Canadians are a compassionate people and we should be. But at what cost?

Britain is a compassionate nation.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

It's a very competitive world out there. The competitive spirit is fine within limits. But it shouldn't drown the sheer joy of the game being played. It's natural to want to win. But to me, it's not natural to want others to fail.

We try not to look at everything through a competitive lens.

AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated.

If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do.

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

Everyone knows that a compliment goes a very long way, and you never know what someone's going through in their life - giving them a compliment might mean the world to them.

I would say that the best compliment I have gotten is from teachers who say they can tell that my kids come from a big family because they can see that they anticipate other people's needs and they don't think the world revolves around them.

I would say I'm basically interested in human beings, and I don't really care whether they're men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both.

If you visibly compromise someone or hurt someone, or hurt their vision, you're not supposed to still just stand there and wait for them to come to you.

Concentrating on yourself all day is not healthy.

My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.