Quotes About Compassion

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

There's a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Love is so powerful. It will always show up on time to people who need it most.

I consider myself an excellent candidate... because I care.

If you feel like it's hard to be friends with women, consider that maybe women aren't the problem. Maybe it's just you.

I don't consider myself a mean person. I hope I'm not.

We consider all our animals to be our kids.

I'm a lovely person, considerate and loving.

I learned that being considerate helps me in my life and career.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

We believe in satisfying our own needs but always considering others.

Charity should always be a constant.

We're human beings trying to love each other. There are constant revelations and room for growth.

As a working mother, wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, I have to make constant moral choices. Every choice I make results in someone else suffering.

I want to construct a better country for each Brazilian: pacified, just, without hate or rancor.

With someone who is genuinely abusive or a bad person, you should just get out of town. But if they're being the best person they know how to be, then you have to decide if there isn't much there you can love and not become consumed with what they're not able to give you.

You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.

I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes.

I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.