172 private quotes tagged sympathy

“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.”— Jesse Jackson

“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.”— Emma Goldman

“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”— William E. Gladstone

“Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.”— Florence Nightingale

“A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.”— Irving Babbitt

“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.”— Dorothy Day

“Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?”— Clyde Tombaugh

“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”— Ovid

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”— Dante Alighieri

“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”— Alphonse de Lamartine

“According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.”— John Buchanan Robinson

“September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.”— Tom Ford

“It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.”— Terry Eagleton

“The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.”— Irving Babbitt

“Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.”— Michael Gove

“When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.”— Alexei Navalny

“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.”— Saint Augustine

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”— Queen Elizabeth II

“Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.”— P. J. O'Rourke

“Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.”— George William Norris

“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.”— Havelock Ellis