Having compassion for yourself means that you honor and accept your humanness.

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.

The test of true competence is the end result.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that’s on a gold standard.

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.

When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives.

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

For us to feel good emotionally, we have to look after ourselves.

This idea of compassion comes to us because we’re made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

Compassion is a passion with a heart.

Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.

We can’t heal the world today but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, an act of kindness.