Deborah Meaden Quotes

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

I always think you have to show a degree of humanity and sensitivity when you're dealing with people in extreme circumstances.

If thou wouldst help others, deal with them as though they were what they should be

People respond to real problems from the heart.