Top 200 Compassion Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

52. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

— Leo Buscaglia

53. “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”

— Nhat Hanh

54. “We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.”

— Carl R. Rogers

55. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.”

— Brené Brown

56. “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

57. “As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.”

— Ram Dass

58. “The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.”

— William Osler

59. “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”

— Vincent van Gogh

60. “If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.”

— Kristin Chenoweth

61. “Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

62. “The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.”

— Leo Tolstoy

63. “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”

— Francis of Assisi

64. “The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”

— Bruce D. Perry

65. “There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.”

— Corrie ten Boom

66. “If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.”

— Brené Brown

67. “To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.”

— Bell Hooks

68. “Be positive. Be true. Be kind.”

— Roy Bennett

69. “In the end only kindness matters.”

— Jewel

70. “Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.”

— Confucius

71. “Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”

— Swami Vivekananda

72. “Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.”

— Nhat Hanh

73. “Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.”

— Corrie ten Boom

74. “Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”

— Mother Teresa

75. “Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.”

— Brené Brown

76. “Your life will become better by making other lives better.”

— Will Smith

77. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”

— Mother Teresa

78. “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

79. “Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”

— Fred Rogers

80. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

82. “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

83. “Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable.”

— Gary L. Francione

84. “Live, and be happy, and make others so.”

— Mary Shelley

85. “We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

— Immanuel Kant

86. “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”

— Desmond Tutu

87. “All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here.”

— A. R. Rahman

88. “There is nothing stronger than gentleness.”

— John Wooden

89. “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”

— Khalil Gibran

90. “I love you and I’m here for you.”

— Will Smith

91. “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

— Mother Teresa

92. “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

— Albert Schweitzer

93. “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”

— Nhat Hanh

94. “We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

95. “Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

96. “Every being is a spark of the Divine, or God. Look into the eyes of the dog and sense that innermost core. When you are present, you can sense the spirit, the one consciousness, in every creature and love it as yourself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

97. “Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.”

— John Wooden

98. “To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.”

— Elie Wiesel

99. “If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn’t it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?”

— Maya Angelou

100. “It’s so easy to laugh It’s so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind.”

— Steven Morrissey