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Quotes About Empathy

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Everyone responds to kindness.
~ Richard Gere
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
~ William Feather
Kindness is a calling. Caring about people is powerful. Love changes lives.
~ Rachel Hamilton
Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.
~ Max Irons
Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.
~ Henry Burton
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
~ Dalai Lama
You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.
~ Stuart Hill
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
~ Taisen Deshimaru
Whether or not you believe in God, you can probably sign on to the idea that being kind to others is divine. Just remember to include yourself in that circle of kindness.
~ Saul Bass
It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.
~ Josh Radnor
Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
~ Bo Burnham
Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
~ Mary Karr
As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.
~ Gautama Buddha
Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.
~ Gen Urobuchi
As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
~ Pema Chodron
It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
~ John Templeton
We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~ Graham Greene
Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
~ Maria Montessori
If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.
~ Dale Carnegie
Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
~ Pierre-Jean de Beranger
There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis