Empathy Quotes

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

You don't have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement.

I would feel that aggravates the situation, ... his lack of empathy, his lack of remorse.

We like to remind them about empathy. They tend to depersonalize the person they victimized.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.

He doesn't seem to have a lot of empathy. He's not a guy who feels your pain.

I don't believe that children are born with empathy. It is something they learn by seeing it modeled by others.

How could that trailer go out? Why the lack of concern? Where's the empathy? Where's the understanding?

In terms of American culture, I think Ang has an enormous empathy for everything we are.

There's a strange kind of empathy because it's so close, a bordering state. This is not far from us, and it's very real. We're following the Golden Rule, and the Lord gets the glory.

Human altruism is thought to be based, in part, on empathy. To be empathetic, you need to understand the thoughts and desires of others.

Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.

I have been interviewed a lot. I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out lies. So I feel for them, I feel their pain. I know what that is like.

We show our empathy and sympathy for those guys, ... but at same time we have a game to play Saturday and can't let that affect us.

They feel taken advantage of by the city. I have some empathy for that.

I have empathy for these kids because I've been in their shoes. I heard all the comments at school, and I was the guy who was ignored on offense during the game, didn't get the ball as often as smaller players, and was criticized the most. We've drawn on that life experience to design a program that helps our big athletes be more confident, accountable and aware of their big bodies and the powers they hold within.

Plays can create empathy. If you put a Muslim character on stage, and make him a full character, you're making it possible for the audience to feel empathy, and a little empathy on both sides would help.

You see people on rooftops. You see people separated from parents. There's a lot of empathy and sympathy.

He never, ever bragged about his accomplishments. What drove him was that he had tremendous empathy for others. He was short in stature, but a giant in heart. I think God gave him an extra dose of optimism.