Quotes about Empathy

I'm not saying that you should live your life according to the whims of others. I am simply pointing out that if you are to become a person of influence — if you want people to believe the things you believe or buy what you are selling — then others must at least be comfortable around you. A successful life has a great deal to do with perspective. And another person's perspective about you can sometimes be as important as your perspective is about yourself.

A wise man will cultivate a servant's spirit, for that particular attribute attracts people like no other.

He who serves the most grows the fastest.

I will greet this day with a forgiving spirit. I will forgive even those who do not ask for forgiveness.

Victims don't want to be proactive about changing—they want to be proactive about making sure that the person who hurt them pays. And so we spend our energy telling our sad stories rather than taking responsibility for our behavior. Thus we open the door of our hearts and welcome in the Trojan horse of bitterness. And it stands there, a monument, a constant reminder of a debt someone has yet to pay. Somebody owes us.

When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.

How should Jesus-following Republicans and Democrats treat, speak about, and respond to one another? Publicly and privately? The way Jesus treated, spoke to, and responded to those who disagreed with him.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

The people closest to you routinely catch the flak thrown off by the explosive stuff you normally work so hard to keep hidden.

People who were nothing like him liked him. And Jesus liked people who were nothing like him.

How we treat, talk about, respond to, and care for one another is the identifying mark of a genuine Jesus follower. Not what we believe.

Kindness is love's response to weakness.