Quotes On Empathy

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. "
George Washington Carver
"Empathy is the most radical of human emotions."
Gloria Steinem
"True contentment comes with empathy."
Tim Finn
"You know, there's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit -- the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us -- the child who's hungry, the steelworker who's been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. When you think like this -- when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers -- it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help."
Barack Obama
"If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants."
Thomas Berry
"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives."
Stephen Covey
"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own. "
Henry Ford
"Empathy is the lovefire of sweet remembrance and shared understanding."
John Eaton