Compassion Quotes

"The one and only test of a valid religious idea, doctrinal statement, spiritual experience, or devotional practice is that it must lead directly to practical compassion."

Karen Armstrong

"All the world's great traditions have at their core the principle of compassion."

Karen Armstrong

"We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him."

"Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it."

Brené Brown

"A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."

Steve Maraboli

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Feel, my would-be reformers, my would-be patriots! Do you feel?"

"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."

“At a time in our history when the streets of the Nation's cities inspire fear and despair, rather than pride and hope, it is difficult to maintain objectivity and concern for our fellow citizens. But the measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.”

“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other, not in pity or patronisingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”

“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”

“Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him.”

“We were raised in a community where we were taught to see a world beyond just ourselves. To be conscious and compassionate about the struggles of all people.”

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

“They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.”

“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all: the apathy of human beings.”

“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.”

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”

“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world; that is something you are free to do. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”

“If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion.”

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”