132 Pity Quotes for You to Enjoy

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. Francis of Assisi

God You Compassion Will Men Exclude Fellow Likewise Fellow Men Deal Shelter Any Pity Who Creatures

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. Nelson Mandela

Hope Future Suffering Compassion Other Our Learnt How Human Common Human Beings Pity Turn Us Who Beings Binds

I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them. Ulysses S. Grant

Love Thankful Myself Home Great Patriotism Noise People I Am Country Nation Though Seeing Attacked Never Hostile Like Masses Make Am Bullet However Heard Existence Left Dependent Pity Them Whistle Who Professing Suffer Right

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. Nikola Tesla

Nature Man Survival Law Result Will Year Past Sense Alive Out See Ruthless New Governing Continue Began Fittest Established Unfit Pity Then Ages Strains Breed Interfere Less Workings Keep Roughly Desirable Universally

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. Mark Twain

Party Seem Noah Miss Does His Did Often Pity Boat

Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience. Glennon Doyle Melton

Life Love Love Is Discipline Perspective Compassion Feeling Important Else Way More More Than Anything Habit Make Comfort Becomes Does Than Just Convenience Happen Pity Anything Anything Else Choice Viewpoint

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. William Blake

Love God Mercy Too Dwell Dwelling Where Pity

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. W. E. B. Du Bois

Soul Eyes World Looking Sense Others Through Self Contempt Looks Always Tape Sensation Pity Measuring Amused Peculiar

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. John Keats

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Soul Giving Sympathy More Mailing Impersonal True Check Demands Concern Than Personal Represent May Pity Which Little

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company. Arthur Schopenhauer

Character Man Others Pleasure Sign Rascals More He Nobility Takes Always His Chief Any Pity Little Sociable Company

People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is. Ian Hamilton Finlay

Myself Me People Being Myself Find Only Know Annoying Understand Always How Am Being Pity Found Why Challenging

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. David Brainerd

Wisdom Moving On God Heart Father State Our Eye Touched Recovery Mercies Infinite Beheld Pity Deplorable Laid Plan

You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them! Mr. T

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize. Stephen Covey

Strength Great Character Heart Great Deal Values Sense Possess Out Security Must Rather Takes Himself Principles Deal Genuinely Quickly Than Person Order Pity Apologize Deep Fundamental Fundamental Principles

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition. Stephen Hawking

Positive Myself Me Before Others Worse Say About Could Developed Because Still Were Condition Motor Off Than Get Disease Taught Pity Happier Much Now

I pity the fool who just gives up. Mr. T

Fool Gives Up Just Pity Who

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do. Stephen Hawking

Positive Myself Me Others Worse Say About Could Because Still Were Motor Off Get Disease Taught Pity Much

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. W. Somerset Maugham

Day Thought Up Get Pity Lovely

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. William Butler Yeats

Love Heart Hid Telling Beyond Pity

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