Quotes about Empathy
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
— Confucius
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are.
— Joyce Meyer
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
— CS Lewis
There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
— Mother Teresa
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
— Euripides
Sometimes you have to put your own dreams on hold temporarily so you can help release a dream in somebody else. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.
— Joel Osteen
Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.
— Carl Sagan
Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.
— Bishop TD Jakes
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
— George Eliot
Generosity is the best investment.
— Diane von Furstenberg
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
— George Washington