Sympathy Quotes

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.