Empathy Quotes

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Empathy Quotes

A carefully curated collection of empathy quotes from writers, thinkers and voices worth listening to. Whether you need a quick boost or a deeper moment of reflection, these words are here to help.

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"Failing to plan means planning to fail."

-- Brian Tracy

"Failing to plan means planning to fail."

-- Brian Tracy

"You become what you think about most of the time."

-- Brian Tracy

"You become what you think about most of the time."

-- Brian Tracy

"Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

-- Brian Tracy

"Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

-- Brian Tracy

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."

-- Plato

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."

-- Plato

"A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists."

-- Bruce Lee

"A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists."

-- Bruce Lee

"Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion."

-- Mother Teresa

"One of the realities we're all called to go through is to move from repulsion to compassion."

-- Mother Teresa

"Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well."

-- Mother Teresa

"Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well."

-- Mother Teresa

"May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in."

-- Mother Teresa

"May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in."

-- Mother Teresa

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

-- Mother Teresa

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

-- Mother Teresa

"An open heart is an open mind."

-- Dalai Lama

"An open heart is an open mind."

-- Dalai Lama

"True love is born from understanding."

-- Gautama Buddha

"True love is born from understanding."

-- Gautama Buddha

"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete."

-- Gautama Buddha

"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete."

-- Gautama Buddha

"The only true teacher is he who can immediately come down to the level of the student."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"The only true teacher is he who can immediately come down to the level of the student."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"If I love myself despite my infinite faults, how can I hate anyone at the glimpse of a few faults."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts?"

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts?"

-- Swami Vivekananda

"He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Tempt not a desperate man."

-- William Shakespeare

"Tempt not a desperate man."

-- William Shakespeare

"If you prick us, do we not bleed?"

-- William Shakespeare

"If you prick us, do we not bleed?"

-- William Shakespeare

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

-- Confucius

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

-- Confucius

"Small is the number of people who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

-- Albert Einstein

"Small is the number of people who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

-- Albert Einstein

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

-- Albert Einstein

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

-- Albert Einstein

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A carefully curated collection of empathy quotes from writers, thinkers and voices worth listening to. Whether you need a quick boost or a deeper moment of reflection, these words are here to help.

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Some of the most celebrated empathy quotes come from A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Albert Einstein, Confucius, William Shakespeare, Mahatma Gandhi, among many others featured on this page.

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Popular empathy quotes include: "Be silent in two situations: When you feel one can't understand your feelings from words, and when you can understand without any words." -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Also: "A teacher should have a creative mind and a big heart." -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

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