Quotes About Compassion

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.

I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don't have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders.

I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Kindness is the supreme intelligence.

Prison is the only place, where Darwin's Theory of Evolution may seem to work. Survival of the fittest does only work, where the fittest is defined as the most loving.

Service of self is best developed in dealings of service to others.

Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.

I will always welcome joyfully any opportunity that comes my way to be of service to you

Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.