Quotes about Empathy
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
— Charles Spurgeon
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
— Winston Churchill
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've seen hate on the faces of too many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in the South to want to hate myself, because every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one but an aviator has a right to look down on others.
— Elbert Hubbard
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
— John Maxwell
Your people are a mirror of your attitude. If you have a poor attitude, you can't expect your people to be upbeat.
— John Maxwell
Every person is different. Yet often, those differences are not understood or valued by others.
— H. Norman Wright
It's been suggested that successful communication consists of 7 percent content, 38 percent tone of voice, and 55 percent nonverbal communication. We're usually aware of the content of what we're saying, but not nearly as aware of our tone of voice.
— H. Norman Wright
Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.
— Hannah Hurnard