Compassion Quotes

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Our favorite collection of Compassion Quotes and sayings

The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love
~Khalil Gibran

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
~Mason Cooley

Compassion is the basis of morality.
~Arnold Schopenhauer

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
~Francis Schaeffer

The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I’d say that compassion begins with attention.
~Daniel Goleman

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
~Dalai Lama

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
~Saint Patrick

Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more humane world.
~Martin Lowenthal

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
~John Berger

The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.
~Arthur H. Stainback

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.
~Terry Waite

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
~ Dalai Lama Quotes

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
~ Buddha

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
~Henry Ward Beeche

By compassion we make others’ misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also
~Thomas Browne, Sr.

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