Free Positive Quotes on Empathy [PDF]

1. “Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.” – Alfred Adler

2. “When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.” – Stephen Covey

3. “Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” – Mohsin Hamid

4. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia

5. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

6. “Empathy is the medicine the world needs.” – Judith Orloff

7. “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?” – Henry David Thoreau

8. “Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek

9. “Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.” – Max Carver

10. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” – Dalai Lama

11. “Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of ‘You’re not alone.'” – Brené Brown

12. “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” – William James

13. “Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.” – Daniel Goleman

14. “Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.” – Barack Obama

15. “The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.” – Meryl Streep

16. “Empathy is the bridge to connection.” – Deborah Day

17. “The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world.” – Plato

18. “Empathy is the antidote to shame.” – Brené Brown

19. “Empathy is the key to understanding.” – Unknown

20. “Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.” – Eric Zorn

21. “Empathy is the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.” – Barbara Kingsolver

22. “True empathy requires that you step outside your own emotions to view things entirely from the perspective of the other person.” – Unknown

23. “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway

24. “Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.” – Sterling K. Brown

25. “Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.” – C. JoyBell C.

26. “Empathy is not just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to.” – Anshu Jain

27. “Empathy is the greatest creator of energy. It’s about being open to the pain and pleasure of others, it’s about wanting to share in that pain and pleasure with others.” – Melinda Gates

28. “Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing.” – Marshall B. Rosenberg

29. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa

30. “Empathy is the highest form of knowledge.” – Bill Bullard

31. “The only way to change someone’s mind is to connect with them from the heart.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

32. “Empathy is the first step in having compassion for others.” – Max Carver

33. “Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.” – Heinz Kohut

34. “Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.” – Stephen Covey

35. “Empathy, humanity, and support for each other is more important than revenue, than growth.” – Eric Yuan

36. “We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.” – Lydia Millet

37. “Empathy is the currency of connection.” – Unknown

38. “Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That’s why they look alike.” – Daniel Goleman

39. “Empathy is connecting with others on an emotional level, and compassion is taking action from that connection.” – Lisa Olivera

40. “Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins.” – Barack Obama

41. “Empathy means both understanding others on their own terms and bringing them within the orbit of one’s own experience.” – Jacob A. Belzen

42. “Empathy is like giving someone a psychological hug.” – Lawrence J.

43. “Empathy allows us to hold space for others, to hear and understand their struggles, and to offer genuine support.” – Unknown

44. “Empathy is a choice, and it’s a vulnerable choice.” – Brené Brown

45. “Empathy grows as we learn.” – Alice Miller

46. “Empathy is the door to wisdom.” – Suzy Kassem

47. “When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.” – Susan Sarandon

48. “Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion.” – Marshall B. Rosenberg

49. “The more we empathize, the more we care. The more we care, the more we love.” – Unknown

50. “Empathy is our greatest tool of compassion.” – Carol McCloud

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