Quotes about Empathy

The unfortunate truth is that many of us, instead of offering total forgiveness, pray something like this Irish Prayer: May those who love us, love us; And those who don't love us May God turn their hearts; And if He doesn't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles, So we'll know them by their limping.

The more you do to go beyond words, the greater the chance you will connect with people.

Remember that success is just 15 percent product knowledge and it's 85 percent people knowledge.

Sometimes we get to see the miracle. Others times we get to be the miracle.

Connect emotionally through facial expressions, laughter, and tears.

If you talk to a man in the language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

The bottom line is that indifference is really a form of selfishness.

People like people who like them.

Good leaders listen, learn, and then lead.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Before I discovered that helping myself made me more capable of helping others. That's one of the reasons I tell people that to add value to others, they must make themselves more valuable. You can't give something you don't have. You can't tell what you don't know. You can't share what you don't feel. No one gives out of a vacuum.