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Quotes About Empathy

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
~ Thomas Huxley
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.
~ Emily Post
Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
~ Jack Kornfield
I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
~ Herbert H. Lehman
The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.
~ John Baldoni
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.
~ Gerard K. O'Neill
Respect other people regardless of the level they are at... or the level you are at. When you hand out respect, you get it back.
~ Erik Estrada
Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.
~ Ricardo Montalban
Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.
~ Bertrand Russell
Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.
~ Danny Barker
When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.
~ Jean Vanier, Finding Peace
The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.
~ Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect
~ Joan Dunayer
The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
~ Ayad Akhtar
Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
~ Jack Kornfield
Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!
~ Dizzy Gillespie
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
~ Tecumseh
You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.
~ Larry Page
Having respect for animals makes us better humans.
~ Jane Goodall
If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.
~ Ted Turner
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
~ James A. Baldwin
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
~ Rania Al Abdullah
All I'm saying is that you should show some respect for what other people see with their eyes and feel with their fingers, even though it be the exact opposite.
~ Luigi Pirandello
I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.
~ James Stewart