Top 10 Mindful Quotes
""Seek first to understand, then to be understood." - Stephen R. Covey
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." - Doug Larson
"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." - Richard Moss
"To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens." - Unknown
"The world is full of good people. If you can't find one, be one." - Unknown
"Listen to understand, not to reply." - Unknown
"Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself." - Mohsin Hamid
"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery." - J.K. Rowling
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try." - Ernest Hemingway
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about." - Wendy Mass
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa
"Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
"Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life." - Jackie Chan
"A person's a person, no matter how small." - Dr. Seuss
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." - Ram Dass
"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
"We rise by lifting others." - Robert Ingersoll
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view." - Harper Lee
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"The more you know, the more you realize you don't know." - Aristotle
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." - Maya Angelou
"Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening." - Nelson Mandela
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"You don't have to be rich to help someone; you don't have to be famous to make a difference." - Unknown
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington
"Every act of kindness grows the spirit and strengthens the soul." - Unknown
"Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet." - Sarah Louise Delany
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood." - Stephen R. Covey
"Understanding is deeper than knowledge. There are many people who know you, but there are very few who understand you." - Unknown
"Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes." - Native American Proverb
"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another." - Alfred Adler
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes." - Jack Handey
"The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply." - Stephen R. Covey
"When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change." - Audrey McLaughlin
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them." - Ralph Nichols
"Before you speak, ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid." - Bernard Meltzer
"Do not be quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith." - Thomas Merton
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Understanding is a two-way street. You have to understand that people don't always understand you." - Unknown
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." - Wayne Dyer
"Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms." - Sterling K. Brown
"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say." - Bryant H. McGill
"It's the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"Never assume. Ask questions. Get answers. Open your mind to possibilities and opportunities. Then, make an informed decision. Change your mind, if necessary." - Rodolfo Costa
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said." - Peter Drucker
"When we talk, we repeat what we already know; when we listen, we often learn something." - Jared Sparks
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
"We do not remember days, we remember moments." - Cesare Pavese
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?" - Rumi
"A person's a person, no matter how small." - Dr. Seuss
"We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are." - Anaïs Nin
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." - Kahlil Gibran
"The more I see, the less I know for sure." - John Lennon
"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." - Richard Branson
"People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude." - John C. Maxwell
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." - Dalai Lama
"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway." - Mother Teresa
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." - Aristotle Onassis
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"You have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." - Harriet Tubman
"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs
"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations." - Oliver Goldsmith
"Don't count the days, make the days count." - Muhammad Ali
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"The highest result of education is tolerance." - Helen Keller
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama
"Understanding is a two-way street." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"To understand everything is to forgive everything." - Buddha
"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough." - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
"The first step to wisdom is silence; the second is listening." - Solomon Ibn Gabirol
"It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act." - Dalai Lama
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said." - Peter Drucker
"Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change." - Max Carver
"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." - Richard Moss
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." - Ram Dass
"Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself." - Mohsin Hamid
"Do not be afraid to ask dumb questions. They are easier to handle than dumb mistakes." - Unknown
"The better you understand people, the easier it is to get along with them." - Brian Tracy
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved." - George MacDonald
"When you understand another, you don't judge them. You understand why they are who they are." - Unknown
"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another." - Alfred Adler
"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do." - Kobe Bryant
"Don't listen with the intent to reply, but with the intent to understand." - Stephen R. Covey
"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery." - J.K. Rowling
"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others." - Albert Schweitzer
"No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care." - John C. Maxwell
"The art of conversation lies in listening." - Malcolm Forbes
"Empathy is the antidote to shame." - Brené Brown
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them." - Ralph Nichols
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view." - Harper Lee
"The more you know, the less you understand." - Lao Tzu
"When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new." - Dalai Lama
"Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place." - Daniel H. Pink
"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 Covey
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." - Wayne Dyer
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." - Epictetus
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Understanding is a kind of ecstasy." - Carl Jung
