Quotes About Empathy

All mothers go through the exact same things.

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

I think a mother needs to be with mothers. I don't know what they talk about.

Mothers need mothers. Let's be there for one another.

Many mothers or daughters assume that words only mean one thing. 'If I feel criticised, that has to be the whole story', and 'if I feel I am being helpful, that has to be the whole story'.

I played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn't like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader.

Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.

Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together.

It is quite hard to be a working mother. At the same time, it is hugely rewarding. I have learnt to appreciate working mothers everywhere because millions of women are doing that, including my maid.

I try to motivate people and inspire them, to let them know that they're not alone.

When someone else is injured, they are the ones who motivate you. It's not just for yourself - it's for them.

There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.

Sometimes people hear that you help somebody or you said something that really resonated with them that they really needed to hear. Sometimes people get motivated to go and do stuff. That makes me feel really good because I feel like I'm affecting people in a good way.

People who are highly motivated, when it comes to dogs, they will go to any extent. Sometimes I feel that dogs play a more important role in their lives, more than other humans do.

Showing that you consistently have their best interests at heart not only motivates your people to do their best work; it also builds goodwill that you may need to draw on when the going gets tough and you have to lean on one another to find the horizon.

What motivates me is connecting with people and making everybody feel loved.

It's motivating to think that you, as one person, can make a world of difference in someone else's life.

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is. I was a little bit different.

Being adopted was my motivation to help others by first becoming successful.

Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals.