(332 quotes found)
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
Helen Keller
“It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs”
Anita Roddick
“Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity”
Stephen Vincent Benet
“If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin”
Adolf Hitler
“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgment is never just.”
D.H. Lawrence
“Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.”
Elizabeth Bowen
“Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwellThere God is dwelling too.”
William Blake
“The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.”
Aristotle
“If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.”
Lord Chesterfield
