logo

Quotes About Empathy

Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
~ Ang Lee
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
~ Mason Cooley
Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.
~ Mitch Albom
If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
~ Taraji P. Henson
I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.
~ Bob Seger
When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground.
~ William J. Clinton
My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.
~ Frederick Lenz
You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.
~ Gloria Steinem
Money will respond to you just like people do.
~ Suze Orman
When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.
~ Jay McInerney
I beseech you to open your hearts and give back! Give your time/services/money/support/encouragement/love! Give whatever you can!
~ Jen Lilley
A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is easy to be compassionate with other people's money
~ John Atherton
I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.
~ John Steinbeck
When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.
~ Josh Brolin
Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.
~ Robert Graves
Take care of your relationships and the sales/money will take care of itself.
~ Robin Sharma
Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.
~ Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.
~ Seth Godin
You never know what a person is going through, regardless of how much money they make or however great a life you think they're living.
~ Terrell Owens
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden