Top 200 Compassion Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “People start to heal the moment they feel heard.”

— Cheryl Richardson

102. “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”

— Mother Teresa

103. “All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?”

— Buddha

104. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

105. “As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.”

— Maya Angelou

106. “Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

107. “You cannot save people. You can only love them.”

— Anaïs Nin

108. “You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”

— J.K. Rowling

109. “We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.”

— Barack Obama

110. “Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.”

— Marianne Williamson

111. “Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

112. “Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”

— Mother Teresa

113. “When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

114. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

— Maya Angelou

115. “Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.”

— Prince

116. “In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”

— Carl Sagan

117. “Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But, life salutes you when you make others happy.”

— Charlie Chaplin

118. “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.”

— Leo Tolstoy

119. “Your success and happiness depend on your willingness to help others solve their problems.”

— T. B. Joshua

120. “Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

121. “The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.”

— Pope Francis

122. “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”

— Thomas Carlyle

123. “Always remember you matter, you’re important and you are loved, and you bring to this world things no one else can.”

— Charlie Mackesy

124. “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.”

— Fred Rogers

125. “Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.”

— Nhat Hanh

126. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

— Nelson Mandela

127. “I am here to serve. I am here to inspire. I am here to love. I am here to live my truth.”

— Deepak Chopra

128. “Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.”

— Rumi

129. “If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.”

— Deepak Chopra

130. “When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.”

— Nhat Hanh

131. “The objective of Nonviolent Communication is not to change people and their behavior in order to get our way: it is to establish relationships based on honesty and empathy, which will eventually fulfill everyone’s needs.”

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

132. “We only have what we give.”

— Isabel Allende

133. “Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.”

— Oprah Winfrey

134. “If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”

— Maya Angelou

135. “Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.”

— Brené Brown

136. “We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”

— Virginia Satir

137. “The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

138. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

139. “The noblest revenge is to forgive.”

— Thomas Fuller

140. “Be Somebody who makes Everybody feel like a Somebody.”

— Robby Novak

141. “Self-compassion is a way of emotionally recharging our batteries. Rather than becoming drained by helping others, self-compassion allows us to fill up our internal reserves, so that we have more to give to those who need us.”

— Kristin Neff

142. “A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

143. “I’m blessed to be a blessing to someone else.”

— Joel Osteen

144. “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

— Albert Schweitzer

145. “Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”

— Pema Chödrön

146. “It takes strength to be gentle and kind.”

— Steven Morrissey

147. “It’s your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.”

— Tony Robbins

148. “Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.”

— Jane Goodall

149. “Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.”

— Nhat Hanh

150. “Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .”

— Dalai Lama XIV