Quotes about Empathy
As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...
- John Updike
The good ones develop give. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
- John Updike
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you
- John Wooden
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you
- John Wooden
What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience—even if you risk angering or hurting that person—you are offering the most valuable gift of all.
- John Wooden
It took me a long time to understand that even a stubborn mule responds to gentleness.
- John Wooden
There is a wonderful, almost mystical, law of nature that says three of the things we want most—happiness, freedom, and peace of mind—are always attained when we give them to others.
- John Wooden
I remain convinced to this day that compassion like that—sincerely caring for your players and maintaining an active interest in their lives, concerns, and motivations—is one of the most important qualities a coach can have.
- John Wooden
reminder that gentleness can fix in a moment what an hour of shouting fails to achieve.
- John Wooden
Make friendship a fine art.
- John Wooden
Never believe you're better than anybody else, but remember that you're just as good as everybody else.
- John Wooden
There is nothing stronger than gentleness
- John Wooden