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Compassion Quotes
Most Famous Compassion Quotes of All Time!
These lines treat compassion as something to practice daily. One speaks to living authentically with integrity and care in every action, while another argues that ordinary people's struggles deserve to be taken just as seriously as anyone else's. See Empathy quotes for related themes.
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There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.
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There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney. They seemed to have no compassion, and they were always alone.
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I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'
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What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?
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Most creatures in nature die consciously. Cobras, for instance, choose a particular place on a particular branch of the tree. Many a times, I would try to force-feed them out of my misplaced compassion, but they would just puke and go back to sit on the same branch.
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This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
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Voters in 1960 elected the first Catholic president. In 2012, I voted to reelect the first African American president. Each was a vote for a man of principle and character, for a man who had proved himself capable and courageous and who would lead our country with a combination of dignity, compassion and toughness along a path of progress.
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The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
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Our immigration policy should be based in compassion and a desire to help the other.
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I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
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Being a typical teenager isn't easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these hurdles as well as compassion towards these young people.
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The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.
Others link compassion to imagination and connection, suggesting that real perception and hope grow from accepting and educating one another rather than judging first. Browse Care quotes or Compassionate quotes for more.