Walking In Someone Else's Shoes Quotes

Walking in someone else’s shoes can be a powerful way to gain empathy and understanding. Here are the top 99 quotes to inspire this practice:

1. “You never really know a man until you understand things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” – Harper Lee
2. “Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” – Mohsin Hamid
3. “Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another’s place.” – Neil Kurshan
4. “If you want to understand someone, walk a mile in their shoes.” – Proverb
5. “We are all just walking each other home.” – Ram Dass
6. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
7. “It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
8. “The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.” – Stephen R. Covey
9. “If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
10. “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” – J.K. Rowling
11. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
12. “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
13. “The only way we can change the world is to change ourselves.” – Nelson Mandela
14. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
15. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
16. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
17. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
18. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
19. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” – Ronald Reagan
20. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
21. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
22. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
23. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa
24. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” – Ernest Hemingway
25. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
26. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
27. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Teilhard de Chardin
28. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
29. “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
30. “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
31. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
32. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty
33. “We can do no great things, only small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
34. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'” – Martin Luther King Jr.
35. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
36. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
38. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
39. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
40. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
41. “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa
42. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
43. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
44. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
45. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
46. “If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” – Malcolm X
47. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
48. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
49. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
50. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
51. “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” – Randy Pausch
52. “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
53. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
54. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
55. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato
56. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
57. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
58. “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
59. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
60. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
61. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
62. “We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller
63. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
64. “The only true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.” – Brian Tracy
65. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” – Helen Keller
66. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
67. “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” – John Wooden
68. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
69. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story