Quotes About Empathy

If you will first help people get what they want, they will help you get what you want.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for someone else. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If you want to get your message across, you have to learn how to communicate in someone else's world.

The problems around us are not as crucial as the people.

The key to developing charisma: Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you.

Cuando su mentalidad es dar más de lo que toma, lo fuerza a pensar más en los demás que en usted mismo.

Ambassador and poet Henry Van Dyke observed, "There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Other times leaders have to hold their feelings in check. When I say that leaders should delay their emotions, I'm not suggesting that they deny them or bury them. The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others—not yourself—first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification.

Leaders gain credibility when they suffer with those they lead.

Doing for others what they can't do for themselves is really a matter of attitude. I believe that whatever I've been given is to be shared with others. And because I have an abundance mind-set, I never worry about running out myself. The more I give away, the more I seem to get to give away.

I believed that if you have the heart to make a difference, there is always an answer, but if you have a heart of indifference, there is never an answer.

Usted no habrá vivido el día de hoy hasta que haya hecho algo por alguien que nunca podrá pagarle. –JOHN BUNYAN

PARA UNA PERSONA PROMEDIO, SER ESCUCHADO SE ACERCA MUCHO A SER AMADO, CASI NO ES POSIBLE DISTINGUIR UNA COSA DE LA OTRA». —DAVID AUGSBURGER

Decide that People Are Worth the Effort:

people who do not forgive are hurting themselves much more than they're hurting others.

Pero usted impacta aun en sus interacciones diarias con las personas. Puede hacer que los pocos momentos en los que interactúa con un dependiente de una tienda o un cajero en un banco sean una experiencia miserable, o puede hacer que sonrían y alegrar su día. La elección es suya.

Afterward a reporter asked Gandhi's assistant, Mahadev Desai, how the Indian statesman had been able to deliver such a speech without any notes. "You don't understand Gandhi," Desai responded. "You see, what he thinks is what he feels. What he feels is what he says. What he says is what he does. What Gandhi feels, what he thinks, what he says, and what he does are all the same. He does not need notes.

Connecting has a lot to do with letting who you are influence everything you do."8

I observed that the greatest speakers didn't just tell better stories. They actually made the stories better by living them first.

part of the parenting process is helping children understand that they are not the center of the universe.

There's a difference between hearing people and listening to them.

Porque sólo las personas maduras que se enfocan en el prójimo son capaces de establecer relaciones genuinas con los demás.

Después de más de cuarenta años de matrimonio, una larga y exitosa carrera de orador, décadas de trabajo como líder de organizaciones y vasta experiencia en la formación de muchas personas en los Estados Unidos y en docenas de otros países, puedo asegurarte que si deseas tener éxito, debes aprender a relacionarte con los demás.

The common experiences you share with others don't have to be that dramatic (although adversity definitely brings people together). Anything you experience together that creates a common history helps to connect you to others.