(298 quotes found)
“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.”
Jesse Jackson
“Shall we never have done with that cliche, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he is unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they'll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they'll reflect our sadness. But they flee unhappiness as they flee fever, and I believe that in the long run they are capable of boycotting it.”
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.”
William James
“Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field”
Winston Churchill
“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“We will react swiftly and firmly to any statements or actions suggesting sympathy with Nazi-era policies, or that express racism, xenophobia or anti-Semitism.”
James Rubin
“One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
