Quotes About Empathy

There are always going to be jerks in the world . . . [but] there are more good people on this earth than bad people, and the good people watch out for each other and take care of each other.

Genuinely good people are like that. The sun shines out of them. They warm you right through.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Doing good for the community is something that should be a part of who you are. The more you get, the more you should give back.

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.

When people have good energy, I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.

I believe our world desperately needs Good News.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

We need literature because we wouldn't fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

A good action is preferable to an argument.

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.