Quotes about Empathy

Cemetery communication: lots of people are out there, but nobody is listening.

Using the word CHARISMA as an acrostic, we can define the outstanding characteristics of charismatic people: Concern Help Action Results Influence Sensitivity Motivation Affirmation Keep.

Maturity is the ability to see and act on behalf of others.

Questions + Listening = Quality Conversation. Quality Conversation = Quality Leadership.

It's been said that great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others. That's what gossip does. It makes people small. There really is no upside to gossip. It diminishes the person being talked about. It diminishes the person who is saying unkind things about others, and it even diminishes the listener. That's why you should avoid not only spreading gossip but also being a recipient of it.

Jesuit theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, "The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others." Anyone who has unselfishly helped another person knows this to be true.

Give first, no matter what your circumstances may be.

When you don't want to change, you look for differences in others. When you are willing to change, you look for similarities.

You can think the world of others, but if you never actually tell them, then you don't really help them.

If you are willing to make success about giving rather than gaining, you will find your life to be greatly rewarding.

Isn't it strange how we must surrender being right in order to find what's right, how humility enables us to be authentic, vulnerable, trustworthy, and intimate with others? People are open to those who are open to them.

Produce second-mile followers. If you go out of your way to care about others and help them, then they will go out of their way to help you when you ask them to.