Quotes About Empathy

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.

By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.

Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

Listen more than you talk.

Leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. it is not just about you. It's all about them.... everyone deserves a chance.... you can never let yourself be a victim.

When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart.

It's not about you. It's about them.