Quotes About Compassion

I don't want football to not be played, but I would like the sophistication brought forth to take care of those who need to be taken care of and to take the precaution, at the sacrifice of winning, to take care of people.

If a guy is hurt, you take care of him. The Falcons didn't do that.

If Paul Ryan wants to talk about the soul of America, I ask him to look into his own soul. Because if he is saying we have no soul, he certainly has a hole in his. He needs to understand that every single person in this country has a right to expect that their government will take care of them in their greatest need.

I've always approached my job first as a physician. I'm here to help and take care of patients. I'm an administrator second.

When you see a country take care of its people regardless of class, or how much money they make, or what color they are, that's pretty inspiring.

I want people to help take care of each other at work. That's what I want. Do you know how many hours we spend at work? We spend more time at work than we spend at home. When people are suffering, we don't help enough.

We need to protect people with pre-existing conditions, and we need to make sure that we have a safety net for people that can't take care of themselves.

If there's one thing about Chicago, we take care of our own.

My goal after 9/11 was to take care of the families of the people we lost, and that was the most important thing.

We should be developing spaces and places that are thinking about how we care for the group vs. asking the individual to take care of themselves.

The letters, the food - I had no idea I wouldn't see a shrimp for three years. You don't look at those little things you take for granted so easy, until you get sat down, get locked up, or get into a position were you see other people who are less fortunate than you - that don't have anybody.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

I give to panhandlers on occasion, especially around the holidays, but have always been involved with charity, which was an important part of the way I was brought up. My siblings and I knew early on in life that we were incredibly fortunate and have never taken that for granted, so we recognize the importance of giving back.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.

America has become an exceptional nation not because of what we have taken, but because of what we have given.

Sad stories have no takers.

We are givers, not takers.

Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they're sorry and an even stronger person to forgive.

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.