Empathy Quotes

135 inspire records in this category

“When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. ”

Criss Jami  

“Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work. ”

Daniel Goleman  

“Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care. ”

Theodore Roosevelt  

“If we can get man to the moon, we can get man to walk in each other’s shoes. ”

Mary Gordon  

“The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another’s pain as one’s own, and to act to take that pain away. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness. ”

John Connolly  

“We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep. ”

Lydia Millet  

“Experiencing terrible pain opens our hearts and minds to express compassion for other people and communion with ourselves. ”

Kilroy J. Oldster  

“Wearing another’s skin is the most effective way to learn sympathy. ”

A G Howard  

“Those who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not desire for the rest of humankind. ”

Baruch Spinoza  

“The little things you do can be very significant to others. ”

Wayne Gerard Trotman  

“If you want more kindness in the world, put some there. ”

Zero Dean  

“Whether it is rational or empirical, your approach to life must always be empathetic. Emotional intelligence is acquired when knowledge and empathy are combined and applied to situations regularly in everyday life. ”

Stewart Stafford  

“A child is not born with affection, adoration, and kindheartedness. A person accrues empathy and sympathy from experiencing our own pain. ”

Kilroy J. Oldster  

“Every day you need to take some actions – actions to improve your life and actions to improve someone else’s life. ”

Amit Ray  

“Practising kindness increases our ability to be empathetic. It helps keep our hearts open. And that, truly, is the best way to live. ”

Kristi Bowman  

“Empathy is the gateway; compassion is the way. ”

Scott Perry  

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. ”

Walt Whitman  

“I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him… The land of tears is so mysterious. ”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  

“If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive. ”

Brené Brown  

“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing. ”

Nora Roberts  

“There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love. ”

Gregory Boyle  

“To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. ”

Stephen Batchelor  

“Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you do not have to fight. ”

Traci Lea Larussa  

“People need people who show that they care.”

Richelle E. Goodrich