Practice Empathy Quotes

#1. Practice empathy. Try to see things from other people's points of view.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#2. Surround yourself with friends and family who want to practice empathy and kindness. New mothers and parents are the ones who can benefit enormously from this support - we all can.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#3. To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred act of gallantry.

Mac MacKenzie

#4. Confidence can be the first pillar of defense in any situation. If one has confidence, it does not matter what crisis you face. You will overcome or at least minimize the impact of the crisis.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

#5. I was just twenty-one and my name was known wherever men sharpened swords. I was a warrior. A sword warrior, and I was proud of it.

Bernard Cornwell

#6. The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to fit the human soul.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. Democracies accept certain risks that tyrannies do not

Bruce Fein

#8. Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

Germaine Greer

#9. I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.

Aspen Baker

#10. A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

Tom Stoppard

#11. There are monsters in the world. They're called human beings. - Michael Diamond, from The Life Beyond

Douglas Clegg

#12. Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that. I think the fact that it has so many layers underneath the contemporary one intrigues me.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#13. We could have all been killed -or worse, expelled.

J.K. Rowling

#14. I'm interested in the real world.

Edward Bond

#15. I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy ... those things that you can't really practice.

Scarlett Alice Johnson

#16. We have to have a revolution so that all young people grasp empathy and practice it. This is the most fundamental revolution that we have to get through.

Bill Drayton

#17. Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

Julianna Baggott

#18. Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#19. A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#21. Conflict never lies between two people. It always lies between rigid beliefs about the other person and the contradictions they show you. Conflict is always an inside job, but until you recognise this, it is easier to blame the other person.

Esther Veltheim

#22. Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

Jennifer Haigh

#23. When you can begin to see the similarities between you and your work colleagues in respect of 'being human' and the collective challenges we all face, it makes life much easier to deal with, especially when met with overbearing behaviour.

Christopher Dines

#24. We so much want social connection that we become afraid to say something that might make another person reject us. And yet, being vulnerable and having empathy are the most connecting things we can practice.

Iben Dissing Sandahl