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Saturday, July 08, 2023

Sympathy Quotes

Quotes About Sympathy / Empathy

  • Empathy is sympathy with a little bit more effort.
  • Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart. --Edmund Burke
  • Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. --Meister Eckhart
  • What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say --William Shakespeare
  • The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice. --George Eliot
  • Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. --Emily Dickinson
  • Sympathy is no substitute for action. --David Livingstone



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Growing Authority into Influence | MWM
Great leaders use empathy to turn things around and make them positive. You’ll find that many leaders try to promote you into excitement instead of lead into excitement, but through empathy, great leaders can turn the grind into opportunity, turn problems into answers, and make a path of complacency into a path of energy!



1 Sure-Fire Improve Your Relationships with Your Team Members | MWM
Learn To Lead Through The Shoes Of Others = As part of the empathy series, we learn about being able to have an imagination and being able to walk in someone else's shoes and see the world the way they see it. Great leaders take the time to understand the perspective of others even if they don't agree with it. Great leaders don't just walk the talk, they walk in others shoes and try to understand the world as others see it.





Discover Your Leadership Superpower | MWM
Empathy Is Your Leadership Superpower = Empathy is your leadership superpower. When you lead with empathy you create trust and foster a culture where people feel seen, valued, and heard. Empathy unlocks the door for you to deepen trust and build stronger relationships.



Help Carry Someone Else’s Load | MWM
Relate With Others = Empathy is figuring out a way to understand what another person is feeling, and it allows you to know what it is like to walk in their shoes. When you have empathy you can see into the soul of another’s struggle and relate with them. Be an empathetic leader, help the people around you carry their load. 





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Listen To The Heart Of Others = Empathy is a precursor to any good exchange with another person. When we empathize with others, we are feeling with them. It is different from sympathy where you just feel bad for another person. Just as doctors listen and diagnose before they prescribe, leaders need to listen and empathize before they lead. 


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Why Empathy Matters: Simon Sinek on Humanizing the Workplace
We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what's wrong before telling them they're wrong.



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Jeremiah 16:5 This is what the Lord says: “Do not go to funerals to mourn and show sympathy for these people, for I have removed my protection and peace from them. I have taken away my unfailing love and my mercy.
2 Corinthians 1:3-5 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
Philippians 2:1 - So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,
1 Peter 3:8 - Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Romans 12:15 ESV Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
Matthew 9:36 When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion and pity for them, because they were dispirited and distressed, like sheep without a shepherd.
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Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Harmony Quotes

Quotes About Harmony
  • In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
  • Be in harmony, yet be different.
  • Harmony is next to Godliness







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Ephesians 4:13 Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:
Romans 12:16-18 ESV Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
1 Peter 3:8 ESV Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Romans 14:19 ESV So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
Colossians 3:14 ESV And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 3:12-13 ESV Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Romans 15:5 ESV May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
Psalm 133:1 ESV A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the harmony of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
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Monday, July 18, 2022

Manners Quotes

Quotes about Manners
  • I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. --OG MANDINO
  • Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. --CLARENCE THOMAS



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Luke 6:31 ESV And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Titus 3:2 ESV To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
1 Peter 3:8 ESV Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Leviticus 19:32 ESV “You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
Ephesians 4:29 ESV Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Romans 12:10 ESV Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Philippians 2:3 ESV Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Matthew 7:12 ESV “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Colossians 4:6 ESV Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
Proverbs 23:1 ESV When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you,
Matthew 15:11 ESV It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”


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Sunday, January 29, 2023

Ego Quotes

Quotes About Ego
  • It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning. --CLAUDE BERNARD
  • Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment. --Evan Esar
  • Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. --Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time. --Nikki Sixx



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John 5:31 (ESV) If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true.
John 8:28 (ESV) So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.
Habakkuk 2:4 Look, his ego is inflated;he is without integrity.But the righteous one will live by his faith.
Philippians 2:1-10 ESV So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...
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Sunday, August 07, 2022

Teammate Quotes

Quotes About Teammates
  • I've learned to be more of a teammate than try to be the quarterback of the team, if you will, to use a sports analogy.
  • I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.







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Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Proverbs 27:17 ESV Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
1 Corinthians 12:20-25 ESV As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, ...
Philippians 2:1-30 ESV So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...
Ephesians 4:16 ESV From whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.


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"There are a lot of coaches with good ball clubs who know the fundamentals and have plenty of discipline but still don't win the game. [They're missing] the third ingredient: if you're going to play together as a team you've got to care for one another. You've got to love each other. Each player has to be thinking about the next guy and saying to himself: 'I have to do my job well in order that he can do his…' The difference between mediocrity and greatness is the feeling [the teammates] have for each other."

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Tuesday, August 01, 2023

Unity Quotes

Quotes About Unity

  • For the believer in Jesus, every trial of suffering is an opportunity to grow in the faith, to grow in our relationship with the Lord, and to see Him work in our lives in a uniquely personal way that demonstrates His compassion, His comfort, His tender mercies, His loving kindnesses, His grace, and His endless love. Only God knows what each of us needs to experience and learn in order to be "conformed to the image of his Son". --T.A. McMahon
  • You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear. --Tim Keller
  • The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving. The Christian life is an unending festival. And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us, is a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it. --John Stott
  • Unity increases power. Joyce Meyer
  • When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Joseph Campbell
  • The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. W. Somerset Maugham
  • Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all. --Richard Baxter, English Clergyman (1615-1691)






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1 Corinthians 1:10 (MSG) I have a serious concern to bring up with you, my friends, using the authority of Jesus, our Master. I’ll put it as urgently as I can: You must get along with each other. You must learn to be considerate of one another, cultivating a life in common.
1 Corinthians 12:12 For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts, though many, form [only] one body, so it is with Christ.
Psalm 133:1 - how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
John 17:23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.
Ephesians 4:3 - eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Ephesians 4:13 - until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Colossians 3:14 Above all, put on love—the perfect bond of unity.
1 Peter 3:8 - Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Psalm 133:1 Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
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Sunday, March 10, 2024

Compassion Quotes

Quotes About Compassion 

  • A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. --William John Bennett
  • Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations. Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
  • Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. --Pema Chodron
  • Compassion begins with attention. --Daniel Goleman
  • Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. --John Berger, English Artist (1926-  )
  • Compassion is not a popular virtue. --Karen Armstrong, English Writer (1944-  )
  • Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. --Frederick Buechner, American Clergyman (1926-  )
  • Compassion means justice. Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-c. 1327)
  • Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. --Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman (1813-1887)
  • God's care will carry you so you can carry others. Robert Harold Schuller (1926- )
  • Hearin' is one thing and listenin' is another. William Frend Demorgan (1839-1917)
  • I have this theory that if one person shows compassion to another then that person will start a chain reaction of the same. Rachel Joy Scott
  • If I had known what trouble you were bearing; What griefs were in the silence of your face; I would have been more gentle and more caring, And tried to give you gladness for a space. Mary Carolyn Davies
  • Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away. --Abraham Lincoln
  • Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to the place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it. Henri J. M. Nouwen
  • Love dissolves hate. Kindness melts cruelty. Compassion calms passion. Cooperation evokes love and when we bow, others bend. This creates harmony. unknown
  • Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God will never. William Cowper (1731-1800)
  • Man's sorrows often will not let me sleep. Henriette Roland Holst (1869-1952)
  • Never interfere with God's providential dealings with other souls. Be true to God yourself and watch. Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
  • Quaker to a burglar: "Friend, I would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot." 
  • Regardless of how we define Christ's separation from the world, one fact is clear: he did not separate himself from human beings and their needs. Nor did he limit his concern to the spiritual part of man's personality. Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
  • Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. Bob Goddard
  • Teach me to feel another's; woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
  • The dew of compassion is; a tear. Lord George Noel Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
  • 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
  • These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. Anthony de Mello
  • We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion. Sydney J. Harris
  • Why stand we here trembling around calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells, stretching a hand to save the falling man? William Blake (1757-1827)
  • You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion. --Dalai Lama


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Compassion Is The Heart Of Leadership = The heart of leadership is compassion. Compassion is empathy in action. It's not just about feeling for someone's struggle, it's about doing something to support them in it. Compassion is in the small things, in the meaningful actions, where it shows you are paying attention to them. So, what is one practical way you can support someone and have compassion?



Do for Yourself What You Do for Others | MWM
Give Yourself Grace = Compassion is when you are kind and understanding towards yourself and others. When we practice self-compassion, it lowers our stress levels and helps us be more resilient and strong. Where in your life do you need to be more compassionate with yourself?



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Relate With Others = Empathy is figuring out a way to understand what another person is feeling, and it allows you to know what it is like to walk in their shoes. When you have empathy you can see into the soul of another’s struggle and relate with them. Be an empathetic leader, help the people around you carry their load. 



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Care More, Do More! = Compassionate people are quick to help. Their caring translates into actions. When people care, trust increases and communication improves. Make a commitment today to care a little more and do more for others.


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Be A Friend To Yourself = Do you beat yourself up? Instead, treat yourself as kindly as you would treat a good friend if they were dealing with the same challenge or mistake. When we are compassionate towards ourselves, it lowers our stress levels, helps us persevere, and just feel better. Where have you been too hard on yourself?






Less of a Feeling = Look beyond yourself, focus on others. Put yourself into someone else's shoes and show them how much you care. Invest, connect, and make a difference in someones life today!





Do you care enough to be intentional about adding values to others? Every single day, find one person or multiple people to add value to. Don't let a day go by where you don't pour into someone else!




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1 John 3:17 If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need but shows no compassion - how can God’s love be in that person?
Colossians 3:12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Ephesians 4:32 ESV Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Hebrews 10:34 - For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
Luke 10:33 - But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.
Luke 15:20 - And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
Luke 7:13 - And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.”
Mark 6:34 ESV When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.
Matthew 9:36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Micah 6:8 (MSG) But he’s already made it plain how to live, what to do, what God is looking for in men and women. It’s quite simple: Do what is fair and just to your neighbor, be compassionate and loyal in your love, And don’t take yourself too seriously— take God seriously.
Philippians 1:8 God knows how much I love you and long for you with the tender compassion of Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 14:21 (MSG) It’s criminal to ignore a neighbor in need, but compassion for the poor—what a blessing!
Romans 9:15 - For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
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