Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. Edgar Rice Burroughs
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.Lord Chesterfield
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
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
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. Helen keller
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.Charles Dickens