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Quotes About Empathy

How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time.
~ Henry Heimlich
Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
~ Pat Williams
You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.
~ Oscar Romero
The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.
~ Sherry Turkle
But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.
~ Jamie Ford
I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
~ Tim Minchin
The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.
~ Gautama Buddha
And hey, it's okay to laugh at yourself sometimes, I do dumb things all the time (haha). But when it get's too personal, get your tough skin on and stand firm.
~ Christina Grimmie
We are all ONE, no matter in what form, space or time. As ONE we can change the world if we start changing ourselves.
~ Akiane Kramarik
The most precious gift you can give someone is the gift of your time and attention.
~ Nicky Gumbel
Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.
~ Ani DiFranco
Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.
~ Ashley Montagu
I'd like to take care of someone but at the same time I like girls who are independent.
~ Harry Styles
I want to see a revolution of kindness, because what happens is, when you're kind and you give, it's infectious. You give one time, and it's a great feeling and you want to do it again and again.
~ Leigh Anne Tuohy
If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?
~ Chad Anderson
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
May this be the year that things go your way most of the time, and when they don't, may you have great friends to lean on.
~ John Mayer
We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.
~ Joan Halifax
The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.
~ Louis C. K.
Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.
~ Tim McIlrath
What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.
~ Haruki Murakami
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
~ Cleveland Amory
Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
~ Karen Joy Fowler