Empathy Quotes

"I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes."

"I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing."

"Everybody has their own battles to deal with."

"I will never know what it's like to walk down a street and feel unsafe. No one should have to experience that feeling."

"I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy."

"Transgender people really are misunderstood."

"Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine."

"Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things."

"I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard."

"I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river."

"Walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food."

Anthony Bourdain

"I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard."

Malala Yousafzai

"Empathy makes you a better innovator."

Satya Nadella

"A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard."

Eliphas Levi

"The only true teacher is he who can immediately come down to the level of the student, and transfer his soul to the student's soul and see through the student's eyes and hear through his ears and understand through his mind."

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

Ian Maclaren

"The greatest gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."

Meryl Streep

"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another."

Alfred Adler

"Everyone can master a grief but he that has it."

"Empathy is feeling with people."

Brené Brown

"Suffering – no matter how multiplied – is always individual."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too?"

William Blake

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"

"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others."

Emily Post

"Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them."

Roy T. Bennett