Quotes of: Compassionate Keyword

Commitment doesn't have conditions. A compassionate samurai follows through whether it feels good or not; average people do what they feel like doing.

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

Dennis Prager

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

Michele Bachmann

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

Monica Crowley

Service is providing what's wanted, not what I'd like to give.

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

Thanks to former President George W. Bush - remember the compassionate conservative? - I have a good name for the fundamental principle that should guide the Democratic alternative: compassionate deficit reduction.

Christina Romer

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.

Harry Browne

Ultimately humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we're to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism and compassion.

The Compassionate Life

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the...

Dayananda Saraswati

Malcolm Crowe: [looking at Vincent in the bathroom] Vincent Gray. I do remember you. Quiet, very smart, compassionate. Unusually compassionate. Vincent Gray: You forgot cursed.

The Sixth Sense

America is a giving nation and very compassionate.

David Wilkerson

Make big commitments, keep them, and never offer reasons when you don't make things happen.

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically, but I had to be compassionate and understand the position of those abusing me. I had to figure it out and then rise above it.

Saul Rubinek

As long as you allow your past to haunt you, you'll never be free to pursue your future. You won't even be able to focus on your present.

The Compassionate Samurai: Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart...

Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt.

It's Okay to Cry: Warm, Compassionate Stories That Help You Find Hope and Healing After the Death of a Pet

A saint or monk can afford to be compassionate to all, but a leader or boss cannot always be kind. He may soon be without a job himself if he is unduly compassionate, and chances are, no one would show him any compassion then.

The Secret Red Book of Leadership

We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22)

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life