Quotes About Empathy

If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

When one clings to the myth of superiority, one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation, and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And you are probably below it yourself.

Misery is a communicable disease.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.

The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.

I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.

I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.