Quotes about Empathy
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.
— Cicero
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
— Albert Einstein
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
— Albert Schweitzer
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.
— Thomas Merton
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
— Abraham Lincoln
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
— Albert Camus
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
— Elbert Hubbard
Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
— Henry Ward Beecher