Quotes About Empathy

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Knowing sorrow well, I learn to succor the distressed.

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted, this is a process that requires trust and builds trust.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility.

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

A little help is worth a great deal of pity.

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.