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Quotes About Empathy

Having Respect for the world is when you allow people to be what they are.
~ Magda Gerber
In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
~ Ram Dass
My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?
~ Elbert Hubbard
Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.
~ Arjuna Ardagh
If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
~ Gloria Steinem
We can solve many problems in an appropriate way, without any difficulty, if we cultivate harmony, friendship and respect for one another.
~ Dalai Lama
One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.
~ Albert Einstein
Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive.
~ Dalai Lama
I've had that experience of not liking people very much, but having tremendous respect for them.
~ Hayley Atwell
We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
~ Luc de Clapiers
One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.
~ José Saramago, Seeing
Love and respect changes everything.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.
~ Alice Walker
Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.
~ Alan Cohen
Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.
~ Anton Chekhov
We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Do not respond to attacks with attacks. Respond with Mercy & Respect
~ Tariq Ramadan
To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
~ Mencius
Love pays attention. Love listens to the fears and the doubts of others and treats them with respect. Love accepts others the way Jesus accepts you.
~ Rick Warren