Empathy Quotes

"Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have."

- Jonah Sachs

"Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own."

- Ann Patchett

"The golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer's place."

- Orison Swett Marden

"We can never judge the lives of others because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation."

- Paulo Coelho

"I hate to admit it I still miss you How could I forget? I promised you I hate to admit it It’s hard to understand How could I forget The day you lied to me?"

- Bang Chan

"I hope you will never give up. Remember there is a person here in Korea, in the city of Seoul, who understands you."

- BTS Jimin

"Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain."

- Martha Graham

"Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual."

- Anna Pavlova

"I hate the strange feeling of wanting to be in two places at once, like a sailor who misses the sea as much as he misses dry land."

- Michelle Moran

"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."

- Helen Keller

"Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. Some people are just better at hiding it than others."

- Will Smith

"I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions - love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear."

- Vivek Murthy

"My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss."

- Marvin Sapp

"You will never be happy if you are jealous of other people’s success."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"My mother taught me empathy — the basic concept of standing in somebody else’s shoes and looking through their eyes. If I did something messed up, she’d just say, ‘How would that make you feel if somebody did that to you?’"

- Barack Obama

"Witnessing the love and grieving we see from animals, proves to us that all animals feel and have an innate range of emotions that we must respect, protect and empathise with. We must PROTECT them at all costs."

- Angie karan

"I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it feels like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anybody else to feel that way."

- Robin Williams

"Everyone you meet in life is fighting a battle you know nothing about."

- Unknown original

"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

"So often children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes. Yet, us adults have them all the time. None of us are perfect. We must stop holding our children to a higher standard of perfection than we can attain ourselves."

- Rebecca Eanes

"We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life."

- Colleen Hoover

"Educators are the only people who lose sleep over other people’s kids."

- Nicholas A. Ferroni

"Children don’t need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear."

- Emma Thompson

"Perhaps if tearful little boys were comforted instead of shamed there wouldn’t be so many angry men struggling to express and empathize with emotions."

- Lelia Scholl

"Jealousy will never end well; if you feel jealous of others, simply remember that feeling envious towards them will only make you unhappy as well!"

- Anonymous

"Be someone who makes everybody feel like a somebody."

"Your help and guidance to your peers really stand out. Thanks for being such a supportive team member!"

"Put yourself in someone's shoes" is a common phrase. But it is not a common thing that we do everyday. We are, most of the time, self-centred. Especially in this modern, fast-paced life. It is only when we stop for a moment and give our time to others, that we realise the true meaning of empathy."

"A brother is someone who knows there’s something wrong even when you have the biggest smile on your face."

"People will never forget the way you made them feel."