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Quotes About Empathy

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
~ Hosea Ballou
It's not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.
~ F. J. Foakes-Jackson
Try in thine own experience, each; that he speak not for one whole day unkindly of any... and see what such a day would bring to you.
~ Edgar Cayce
If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.
~ Barbara Johnson
Showing kindness to others is one of the nicest things we can do for ourselves.
~ Janette Oke
Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.
~ Jodi Picoult
Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?
~ Lawrence G. Lovasik
The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.
~ Dalai Lama
Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.
~ David D. Burns
Every Day you should reach out and touch someone
~ Maya Angelou
Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
Thank all the people in the world who are always 10% kinder than they need to be.
~ Helen Exley
Let us be kinder to one another.
~ Aldous Huxley
Be loving and kind. Call everyone to your table of kindness.
~ Ma Jaya
All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.
~ John Wesley
I'm glad I'm funny. I'm glad I make people happy, because that's very important. But I'm proud to be known as a kind person.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
~ Alice Munro
...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
~ Andre Gide
The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.
~ Louis de Bernieres
I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.
~ Roma Downey
Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
~ David Levithan