Top 200 Empathy Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

— Booker T. Washington

52. “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”

— Jesse Jackson

53. “Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse, walk a mile in my shoes.”

— Elvis Presley

54. “Don’t judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.”

— Sharon Creech

55. “Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”

— Mother Teresa

56. “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

57. “You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

58. “The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.”

— Jesse Jackson

59. “Give me the gift of a listening heart.”

— Solomon

60. “Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.”

— Denis Waitley

61. “A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.”

— Simon Sinek

62. “If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

63. “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”

— Carl Sagan

64. “Value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.”

— Michelle Obama

65. “I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.”

— Janusz Korczak

66. “Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person’s viewpoint.”

— Dale Carnegie

67. “The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.”

— Desmond Tutu

68. “In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.”

— Elie Wiesel

69. “Most people are doing the best they can, given what they know and understand, including you. If they knew more and were aware of more, they would do things differently.”

— Louise Hay

70. “Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.”

— Simon Sinek

71. “To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

72. “Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”

— Charles Dickens

73. “If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

74. “We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.”

— Billy Graham

75. “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”

— Nhat Hanh

76. “You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.”

— Fred Rogers

77. “Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.”

— Princess Diana

78. “Never underestimate your ability to make someone else’s life better – even if you never know it.”

— Greg Louganis

79. “Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.”

— Peter A. Levine

80. “Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

81. “All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?”

— Buddha

82. “You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.”

— Cheryl Strayed

83. “The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

84. “We are more alike than unalike.”

— Maya Angelou

85. “The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.”

— Pope John Paul II

86. “The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

— Mitch Albom

87. “A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.”

— A. A. Milne

88. “Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.”

— Brené Brown

89. “If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won’t cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.”

— Dale Carnegie

90. “There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”

— Helen Keller

91. “Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”

— Bob Pierce

92. “Why can’t we all just get along?”

— Rodney King

93. “What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”

— Virginia Woolf

94. “If you’re feeling helpless, help someone.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi

95. “To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.”

— Bell Hooks

96. “What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”

— George Eliot

97. “The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”

— Mother Teresa

98. “Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

99. “What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

100. “Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”

— Henry James