33 Quotes About Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes

The power of empathy has amazing healing powers for the soul. These quotes about walking in someone else’s shoes demonstrates how our understanding and compassion is broadened by the shared experiences of others.

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

“A shoe is not only a design, but it’s a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you’re going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.”

“All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don’t show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don’t use electricity.”

“Be well dressed, behave like a gentleman, and keep your shoes shined.”

“Before you judge my life, my past or my character. walk in my shoes, walk the path I have traveled, live my sorrow, my doubts, my fear, my pain and my laughter.”

“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.”

“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”

“Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.”

“Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.”

“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul.”

“I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.”

“I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.”

“I’ve got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.”

“Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.”

“Money doesn’t buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.”

“My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.”

“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.”

“Our job as the game creators or developers – the programmers, artists, and whatnot – is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user’s shoes. We try to see what they’re seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.”

“People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don’t believe globalisation is bad. It’s criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.”

“Projecting all my anger. I can’t seem to get this through to you. The walls are closing in. I dare you to walk in my shoes.”

“Shoes are the finishing touch on any outfit and it is important to complete a look with the perfect pair!”

“Shoes make an outfit. You can throw on a crazy shirt and crazy pants but you add those shoes – done.”

“Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.”

“The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he’s put in charge anyway.”

“Those who are not very good at understanding mental health issues are not going to know what other people are going through in depression. You have to kind of put yourself in somebody else’s shoes.”

“To be a good citizen, it’s important to be able to put yourself in other people’s shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.”

“Virtual reality is the ‘ultimate empathy machine.’ These experiences are more than documentaries. They’re opportunities to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.”

“What you wear – and it always starts with your shoes – determines what kind of character you are. A woman who wears high heels carries herself very different to a girl who wears sneakers or sandals. It really helps determine how you carry yourself.”

“When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you – like old clothes and old shoes.”

“With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it’s like to live in someone else’s shoes.”

“You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.”

“You could never be the man that I be. Never go to war with a dude like me. You’d be barking up the wrong tree. Trust me. You could never do that things that I do. You could never spit the words that I spew. You could never stand to walk in my shoes. Trust me.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”

Having the ability to see something as someone else see’s it takes a conscience effort and understanding of their mindset.