Top 200 Empathy Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Every being is a spark of the Divine, or God. Look into the eyes of the dog and sense that innermost core. When you are present, you can sense the spirit, the one consciousness, in every creature and love it as yourself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

102. “Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.”

— Helen Keller

103. “My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.”

— Maya Angelou

104. “It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

105. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”

— Dr. Seuss

106. “Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

— Og Mandino

107. “The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.”

— Simon Sinek

108. “To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.”

— Elie Wiesel

109. “I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same.”

— Rachel Scott

110. “Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.”

— Misha Collins

111. “Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.”

— A. A. Milne

112. “Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.”

— John F. Kennedy

113. “We are here to heal, not harm. We are here to love, not hate. We are here to create, not destroy.”

— Anthony D. Williams

114. “Take care of yourselves, and each other.”

— Jerry Springer

115. “People start to heal the moment they feel heard.”

— Cheryl Richardson

116. “Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.”

— Bahá'u'lláh

117. “Sharing is Caring – Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love.”

— Kevin Heath

118. “To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.”

— Stephen R. Covey

119. “It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

120. “Realize that you are not alone, that we are in this together and most importantly that there is hope.”

— Deepika Padukone

121. “We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.”

— Barack Obama

122. “People will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

123. “To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.”

— Pope Francis

124. “While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.”

— Maya Angelou

125. “The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

126. “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.”

— Elie Wiesel

127. “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”

— Coretta Scott King

128. “God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

129. “When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.”

— Dr. Wayne Dyer

130. “Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

131. “Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all...”

— Muhammad Ali

132. “We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

133. “Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”

— Helen Keller

134. “If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.”

— Marvin J. Ashton

135. “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

— Emily Dickinson

136. “You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.”

— Anne Frank

137. “You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!”

— Maya Angelou

138. “The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.”

— Simon Sinek

139. “We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.”

— Ellen G. White

140. “When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.”

— Stephen R. Covey

141. “You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.”

— Brian Tracy

142. “You have the power to make the world a better place by being kind to someone today.”

— Joyce Meyer

143. “Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child’s life, we add light and healing to our own lives.”

— Oprah Winfrey

144. “Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

145. “You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”

— John Steinbeck

146. “A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”

— William Arthur Ward

147. “We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

— J.K. Rowling

148. “It’s your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.”

— Tony Robbins

149. “Become genuinely interested in other people.”

— Dale Carnegie

150. “When we help one another, everybody wins.”

— Jim Stovall