Barack Obama Quotes

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

Forgiveness is a basis for moral and ethical behavior.

I love being the mayor of a city that is not defined by the hate filled act of a killer, but is defined by the way we respond: The Love and Compassion and Unity.

You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

At the end of the day, I believe we can all work to foster a spirit of compassion, understanding, and awareness within our communities.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

It is in the power of everybody, with a little courage, to hold out a hand to someone different, to listen, to attempt to increase, by even a tiny amount, the quantity of kindness and humanity in the world.

I don't think you can ever be bitter about anything, because if you don't allow your heart to stay open, then all you have is a filled heart of hate and bitterness, and you're never able to love or like anybody.

I'm hopeful for a world with more love, acceptance, and compassion for others.