Empathy Quotes and Messages

You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

True compassion comes from free will by drawing empathy from within.

Leadership is about empathy.

Empathy is more powerful than sympathy.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

There is no force in the world better able to alter anything from its course than love.

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.

Empathy is like giving someone a psychological hug.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

If we can get man to the moon, we can get man to walk in each other’s shoes.

We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

The highest form of knowledge is empathy.

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.

Wearing another’s skin is the most effective way to learn sympathy.

The little things you do can be very significant to others.

Empathy is connection; it’s a ladder out of the shame hole.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.

When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

We rise by lifting others.

Those who underestimate others are those who lack empathy.

If you want more kindness in the world, put some there.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

Patience and empathy are angers mortal enemies.

Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and yourself.

People need people who show that they care.

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay, but acknowledging that it is not.

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.

One does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us.

Empathy requires known that you know nothing at all.

What you don’t realize is that the world does not need more perfection. It needs more compassion and empathy.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

Empaths did not come into this world to be victims we came to be warriors.

Empathy is the gateway; compassion is the way.

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Compassion is about giving all the love that you’ve got.

Empathy is the most revolutionary emotion.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Like many things in life, your compassion is a skill that can be exercised.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it’s very difficult to empathize across a moral divide.

It’s the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else’s pain.

Kindness can manifest as compassion, as generosity, and paying attention.

Empathy is my good friend, but she doesn’t allow me to be angry.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.