Quotes About Empathy

Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.

There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don't have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders.

I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Your pain is trying to tell you something. It is not an accident, a curse, or an inconvenience. Pain is a form of self-communication.

Kindness is the supreme intelligence.

Service of self is best developed in dealings of service to others.

To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt - the specific wound around which his person has been formed like a scab.

Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.

Know him know me.

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us And foolish notion.

Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.

Leadership does not mean domination.

Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.