Empathy Quotes

135 inspire records in this category

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

Nelson Mandela  

“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.”

Meryl Streep  

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.”

Henry Ford  

“This capacity for empathy leads to a genuine encounter, we have to progress toward this culture of encounter, in which heart speaks to heart.”

Pope Francis  

“If you look into someone’s face long enough, eventually you’re going to feel that you’re looking at yourself. ”

Paul Auster  

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

Walt Whitman  

“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  

“Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.”

Maya Angelou  

“If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.”

Dolly Parton  

“When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection — or compassionate action”

Daniel Goleman  

“One of the most important aspects of being a human being, is being able to be in a relationship. Being able to successfully form and maintain a relationship. And at the heart of that capability is the capacity to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes, to see the world as how they see it. That capacity is empathy. ”

Bruce Perry  

“An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.”

Tarana Burke  

“Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act ”

Eric Zorn  

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. ”

Tahereh Mafi  

“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms”

Sterling K. Brown  

“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  

“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  

“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own. ”

Barbara Kingsolver  

“When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection – or compassionate action. ”

Daniel Goleman  

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being. ”

John Joseph Powell  

“Empathy is understanding the sorrow or loss of another person. Put yourself in the other person’s shoes and imagine how you would feel”

Byron Pulsifer  

“Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and yourself.”

Carl R. Rogers  

“Let’s put “kind” back into “humankind ”

John Mark Green  

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

Zero Dean