We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.
Jackie ChanLet us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother TeresaWe make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
Bill GatesThe most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David ThoreauI’ve been writing poems since I was in the Navy – to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.
Jimmy CarterNothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Robert FrostAll major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai LamaLet the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.
Jesus ChristRomania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
Noam ChomskyThe best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. TrumanYou have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.
George H. W. BushOne friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry AdamsNo person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice WalkerI’m a pretty tough guy, you know. I’m a pretty hard man. I’ve got a lot of compassion, but I don’t waste time with people.
Anthony HopkinsOne man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. WashingtonYou know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.
Thich Nhat HanhIf you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
Maya AngelouAmong us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.
Pope FrancisWhen you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.
Dave GrohlI am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Desmond TutuI’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.
Angelina JolieYour own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
King SolomonI’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.
Marilyn MonroeIf you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.
Kevin HartThe greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother TeresaA man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. ChestertonGod made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
Isaac NewtonGrief changes shape, but it never ends.
Keanu ReevesBeing a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.
Bad BunnyI want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.
Dwayne JohnsonLet’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
Michelle ObamaSolidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
Christopher HitchensWe pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.
Billy GrahamThe greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian TracyIt is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma BombeckHumanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Albert SchweitzerA person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.
Pope FrancisI’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.
Dolly PartonHillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.
Madeleine AlbrightIn search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.
Alice WalkerUntil he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert SchweitzerAlone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen KellerStrength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.
Robert KiyosakiI actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.
Angelina JolieHowever my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
J. K. RowlingI wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.
Kanye WestWar should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
James MadisonIt seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
Terry PratchettWar should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
Colin PowellNever deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo EmersonInstead of judging people, we need to pray.
Joyce MeyerI spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast – which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others – then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
Wayne DyerI go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘
Mr. TReal magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Wayne DyerBack when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.
Richard BransonWhat spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
James MadisonGod’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
Desmond Tutu