Quotes about Empathy
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
how I conveyed information was often as important as the information itself.
— John Wooden
James Russell Lowell wrote: It's not what we give but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare. Who gives of himself of his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
— John Wooden