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Quotes About Compassion

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
~ Mickey Mantle
I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.
~ Tommy Lasorda
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.
~ Sean O'Faolain
When my wife left me, in real life, T. J. Miller was like, 'I'm shooting a movie in Pittsburgh. I'll fly you out and get you a hotel room,' and I spent a week with him.
~ Pete Holmes
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
~ Mason Cooley
Pity is just another form of abuse.
~ Michael J. Fox
Pity is a benign form of abuse.
~ Michael J. Fox
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
~ Joan Halifax
Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
~ Vicki Baum
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
~ Lyman Abbott
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
~ Richard Steele
Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
~ Randy Pausch
I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.
~ Graham Elliot
If I had to feel one thing towards Jim Hellwig, I guess it would be pity a little bit.
~ Ted DiBiase Sr.
Care and pity are two different things.
~ Vince Staples
I think a sense of family, of commitment to family, and of helping each other and standing by each other, are essential. I pity anyone who doesn't grow up with that.
~ Ann Widdecombe
I've been called pizza face and others said my skin was full of craters - it's just so horrible when people pin point something that you feel so badly about.
~ Georgia Toffolo
It is our job to make a difference and leave the world a better place.
~ Karol G
Hatred, racism, and extremism have no place in this country.
~ Angela Merkel
Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.
~ Scott Nearing