Compassion Quotes

"Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time we'd like each other a little more."

- Judy Garland

"It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people"

- Don Meyer

"Worrying isn't a disease, it's a symptom of caring."

- Hank Green

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."

- Dalai Lama

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Bad coaching comes from the ego. Good coaching comes from the heart."

- John Wooden

"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there."

- Suzanne Collins

"The best coaches really care about people. They have a sincere interest in people."

- Byron & Catherine Pulsifer

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

- Ken Blanchard

"Be noble like the sun; let even those who resent you for shinning benefit from your warmth."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"One of the greatest lessons in compassion I had learned was that holding onto resentment and anger doesn't serve anyone, especially yourself."

- James R. Doty, M.D

"Motherhood is hard enough without judgement from others who don't know the whole story."

- Sarah Addison Allen

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

- John F. Kennedy

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

- George Washington Carver

"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses."

- David Storey

"Friends…they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."

- Henry David Thoreau

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"

- Mark Twain

"One person caring about another represents life's greatest value."

- Jim Rohn