If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar WildeThere is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores, the better.
Oscar WildeThe more sympathy you give the less you need.
Malcolm ForbesIt appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David ThoreauTo be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things, this is the nature of righteousness
ConfuciusThe 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.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFor the progress of humanity work alone is not adequate but the work should be associated with love compassion right conduct truthfulness and sympathy. Without the above qualities selfless service cannot be performed.
Sai BabaGod does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.
Sai BabaMarriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George EliotThe community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William JamesNothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field
Winston ChurchillStaying 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'RourkePity 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.And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt WhitmanTwo nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy, who are as ignorant of each other's habits thoughts and feelings as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Benjamin DisraeliIf a wave of service sweeps over the land catching everyone in its enthusiasm it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred malice and greed that infest the World. Attune your hearts so that it will vibrate in sympathy with the woes and joys of your fellow-men. Fill the World with Love. Love will warn you against advising another to do something which you yourself are unwilling to do, your conscience will tell you that you are living in a lie!
Sai BabaWe do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Richard M. Nixon