Quotes about Empathy
How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.
— Thomas Monson
We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
— Publilius Syrus
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.
— Nelson Mandela
Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
— GK Chesterton
He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
— James Howell
Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
— Elbert Hubbard
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
— John Wooden
To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.
— Anonymous
There is no physician like a true friend.
— Anonymous