Quotes About Empathy

Tone, inflection, timing, volume, pacing—everything you do with your voice communicates something and has the potential to help you connect to or disconnect from others when you speak.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

What's the key to relating to others? It's putting yourself in someone else's place instead of putting them in their place.

If you want to win over another person, first win his heart, and the rest of him is likely to follow.

people with charisma possess an outward focus instead of an inward one. They pay attention to other people, and they desire to add value to them.

how we view a person is reflected by how we treat a person.

When you like people and treat them like individuals who have value, you begin to develop influence with them. You develop trust.

The happiest people are those who have invested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.

Most of us think wonderful things about people, but they never know it. Too many of us tend to be tight-fisted with our praise. It's of no value if all you do is think it; it becomes valuable when you impart it.

Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships. As

THE QUESTION I MUST ASK MYSELF: DO I TREAT OTHERS BETTER THAN THEY TREAT ME?

Believe in the value of others. Carlisle said, "A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats the little man." The value you place on people determines whether you are a motivator or a manipulator of men.

You just need to be positive, believe in yourself, and focus on others.

When we're more interested in telling people what to do than in listening to what they are presently doing, we are off balance.

The best way to help people is to see the best in them. The 101% principle: Look for the 1 thing I admire in them and give them 100% encouragement for it.

You have not lived a perfect day, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

Since we tend to see ourselves primarily in light of our intentions, which are invisible to others," said philosopher J. G. Bennett, "while we see others mainly in the light of their actions, which are all that's visible to us, we have a situation in which misunderstanding and injustice are the order of the day." And

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Most careers involve other people. You can have great academic intelligence and still lack social intelligence—the ability to be a good listener, to be sensitive toward others, to give and take criticism well.

the entire population of the world—with one minor exception—is composed of others.

If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.

the most important relationship you will ever have is with yourself. You've got to be your own best friend first." —PHIL MCGRAW

If you're going to connect, people need to know that you understand them.

A deaf ear is the first indication of a closed mind.