Find inspiration to see things from someone else’s perspective and have more empathy in your life with these quotes! I chose four of my favorites and made them into a free printable pdf to hang up around your space. Check it out and let me know what you think…
- Inspiring Words Of Compassion
- Compassion Printable Wall Art
- Compassion Quotes For Students
- Love & Relationship To Be Compassionate
- Self Compassion Quotes & Sayings
- Life Quotes To Inspire Empathy
- Quotes About Compassion For Others
- Short Compassion Quotes & Captions
Inspiring Words Of Compassion
1. “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” – Rumi
2. “Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you’re not alone.” – Brene Brown
3. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu
4. “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
5. “Empathy is the gateway; compassion is the way.” – Scott Perry
6. “Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth, and your heart for love.” – Unknown
7. “We can’t heal the world today but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, an act of kindness.” – Mary Davis
8. “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein
Compassion Printable Wall Art
Whether you have a vision board or want to have up some positive quotes on the fridge… you’re going to love these! You can download the free printable below or grab the entire pack of quotes at the end of the post…
Here’s how to print:
- Download the PDF below
- Print off on heavy-weight paper
- Trim along the cutmarks
- Hang them up around your space to inspire a compassionate and empathic mindset throughout your day
Compassion Quotes For Students
9. “I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.” – Maya Angelou
10. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” – Lao Tzu
11. “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?” – Marcus Aurelius
12. “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” – John Holmes
13. “Practicing kindness increases our ability to be empathetic. It helps keep our hearts open. And that, truly, is the best way to live.” – Kristi Bowman
14. “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.” – Jesse Jackson
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15. “Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.” – Dalai Lama
16. “Let our hearts be stretched out in compassion toward others, for everyone is walking his or her own difficult path.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Love & Relationship To Be Compassionate
17. “One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.” – Shannon L. Alder
18. “True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.” – Daniel Goleman
19. “Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” – Nelson Mandela
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20. “Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.” – Jackie Chan
21. “Compassion, empathy, and love are the real pillars we need to build within ourselves to become human.” – Loknath
22. “There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
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23. “Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and yourself.” – Carl R. Rogers
24. “Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.” – Mason Cooley
Self Compassion Quotes & Sayings
25. “When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.” – Henepola Gunaratana
26. “Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.” – Pema Chodron
27. “It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.” – Brene Brown
28. “Compassion knows that choosing the higher road in any situation is the most loving option for you.” – Debbie Ford
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29. “Having compassion for yourself means that you honor and accept your humanness.” – Kristen Neff
30. “Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.” – Tara Brach
31. “Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.” – Leslie Jamison
32. “Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship with myself.” – Nathaniel Branden
33. “Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves.” – Pema Chodron
Life Quotes To Inspire Empathy
34. “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.” – Maya Angelou
35. “More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.” – Roy T. Bennett
36. “Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us – in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.” – Sharon Salzberg
37. “There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.” – John Connolly
38. “Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” – Jack Kornfield
39. “There’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” – Scott Adams
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40. “Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.” – Albert Einstein
41. “Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” – Theodore Roosevelt
42. “The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” – Gandhi
Quotes About Compassion For Others
43. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” – Plato
44. “God’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
45. “You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.” – John Steinbeck
46. “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.” – Steve Maraboli
47. “One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.” – Dalai Lama
48. “Have compassion and empathy in your heart. Many people are suffering deep emotional anguish beneath the surface of their lives, and smile even as they hurt inside.” – Jim Palmer
49. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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50. “Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.” – Alfred Adler
Short Compassion Quotes & Captions
51. “Make no judgements where you have no compassion.” – Anne McCaffrey
52. “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green
53. “No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank
54. “Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.” – Justin Simien
55. “Look for a way to lift someone up. And if that’s all you do, that’s enough.” – Elizabeth Lesser
56. “Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.” – Seneca
57. “Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.” – Marshall B. Rosenberg
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