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Quotes About Empathy

It wasnt the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.
~ Gloria Grahame
Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.
~ Alice Munro
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
~ Henri Nouwen
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.
~ Gamaliel Bailey
To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.
~ Frank Frankfort Moore
I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.
~ Jason Momoa
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
~ Joan Baez
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.
~ U Thant
Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same - the image of God.
~ John of Kronstadt
At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.
~ Os Guinness
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
~ William Cowper
A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.
~ Sam Peckinpah
If I like you, I'm going to tell you. I'm a hugger, even with men: I'm just very deep.
~ Vince McMahon
Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals
~ George Bernard Shaw
He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.
~ William Blake
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.
~ Thomas Merton
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
~ Hilaire Belloc
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
~ Democritus
Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don't have time to hate.
~ Blake Shelton
The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.
~ Darrell Royal