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Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.
Eric Zorn
Empathy is the key to great stories.
Ami Vitale
Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.
Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of you're not alone.
Brené Brown
Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it.
Derick Thompson
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver
Empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Brené Brown
Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
Gloria Steinem
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.
Unknown
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Kobe Bryant
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Kofi Annan
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
J.K. Rowling
The only way to change the world is to work together, to stand up for what we believe in, and to never, ever give up.
Gordon Brown
We are all in this together and we are going to get through it together.
Antonio Guterres
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Bear Grylls
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran
The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Carol Ryrie Brink
Generosity is the flower of justice.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Khalil Gibran
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is not a weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris Pasternak
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E.E. Cummings
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chödrön
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development. I used to say, 'If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.' Now I say, 'I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.'
Jim Rohn
Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and deepest reach in his or her search for self
fulfillment.
The only way to change the world is to use our hearts. Compassion is the weapon of the brave.
Anonymous
Compassion is not a sentiment but is an active principle that involves recognizing the suffering of others and then actively working to alleviate it.
Dalai Lama
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is feeling the fear, the doubt, the insecurity, and deciding that something else is more important.
Mark Manson
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. Cummings
The only way to do something brave is to first fear it.
Veronica Roth
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya Angelou
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
Franklin P. Jones
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Sir Edmund Hillary
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision.
Randall Worley
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Unknown
Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.
Christina Baldwin
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu
Hope is a powerful weapon, and [one] no one power on earth can deprive you of.
Nelson Mandela
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.
Suzanne Collins
Hope is the heartbeat of the soul.
Michelle Horst
Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to achievement.
Unknown
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
Hope is the thing that holds you tight, when all else has faded away.
Unknown
Hope is the thing that keeps you going when the world tells you to quit.
Unknown
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker
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