Empathy Quotes

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

"The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging on the other."

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."

"Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Mind. Body. Spirit."

"Self-care is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation."

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

"You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career."

"I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do."

"I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now."

"Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades."

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."

"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."

"The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty."

"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."

"I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver."

"Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway."

"Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life."

"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."

"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."

"The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it."

"Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships."

"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."

"Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character."

"Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice."

"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared."

"Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of."

"Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career."

"Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?"

"But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father."

"What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money."

"I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well."

"My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do."

"I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it."

"My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad."

"My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved."

"My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart."

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."

"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto."

"I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams."

"In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress."

"You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams."

"To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms."

"The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny."

"I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself."

"A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others."

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom."