In this post, you will find great Others Quotes from famous people, such as Buzz Aldrin, Vernon Howard, Anais Nin, Elizabeth Warren, Albert Schweitzer. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don’t ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn’t dependent on anyone else.
I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large – especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others – nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
If you aren’t just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person’s thoughts.
People make mistakes and I’ve probably made a few more than others, but unfortunately mine are also a bit more public. That’s the way it is. You’ve just got to get on with life. After all, it’s not a rehearsal.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.
Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.
Let me know myself; let others guess at me.
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Our best thoughts come from others.
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody‘s opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.
Stay focused, believe that you can achieve at the highest level, surround yourself with others who believe in you, and do not stray from your goal.
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven‘t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.
Some photographers take reality… and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn’t mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense – the idea that anyone can make it.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.
Real living is living for others.
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, ‘Degenerate Art,’ which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called ‘sick’ and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results were sometimes unexpected. At times, I would be encouraged by a little unhoped-for success; at others, I would be in the deepest despair because of accidents and failures resulting from my inexperience.
Essentially, social education is moral education, and moral education is preparation for citizenship… When Jefferson and others advocated public education, it was to prepare for citizenship in a new, constitutional, democratic society.
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Never mind, dear, we’re all made the same, though some more than others.
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it’s important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
Discipline yourself, and others won’t need to.
What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.
I’m not as talented as others, but I have a determination and will that enable me to work a lot harder than anyone else.
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.
Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.
Bullying has always been around and there will always be people who thrive on the hurt they cause to others.
It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
‘Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
There’s beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that’s harder than others.
We live by the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that’s when you can do your best… for yourself and for others.
I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Empathy is important, openness, honesty, and an understanding for others.
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
To add value to others, one must first value others.
Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn’t leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see that there’s no ideal – a constant struggle, constantly compromising, but ultimate love.
Risk more than others think safe.
I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person’s life is the affect they have on others.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker‘s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure.
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
Soup is a lot like a family. Each ingredient enhances the others; each batch has its own characteristics; and it needs time to simmer to reach full flavor.
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
Leadership is service to others.
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you’re going to take. I’m always for the one that’s challenging.
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I’m not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I’m not talking about co-dependency, I’m talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.
As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
You just have to find that thing that’s special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.
Even when I was going through difficult times, I never really thought about relying on others.
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.
I think we forget sometimes how blessed we are to be able to help others and make a difference!
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.
There will always be some corners which are challenging and more dangerous than others.
A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.
Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.
I’m a storyteller; that’s what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven’t been and returning to tell a story they haven’t heard before.
To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!
Others do not define you – you define yourself through your words and actions.
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?
What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others.
You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you’re responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Nationalism makes us weak because its eternal seeking of enemies, its disdain of others, its need to feel superior makes cooperation with other nations to collectively guarantee our freedom and security much more difficult.
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you’re making a commitment and difference in that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Some age, others mature.
If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!
We never see ourselves as others see us.
Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
The more knowledge you’ve got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
I think this life is hard without assistance from others.
Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and very strong. I think make-up goes with that femininity. I think it’s a natural gesture for women and one they do more for themselves than for others.
Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It’s a test of character, for individuals and nations.
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you’re flexible, when you’re spontaneous, when you’re detached, when you’re easy on yourself and easy on others.
In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Brittle masculinity, in the right setting, becomes political atrocity. Strength brings problems; weakness brings others, but weakness posing as strength is the most dangerous of all.
When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
Every day, I wanna work on being a better person, not just to others but to myself.
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.
The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don’t, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.
The sun doesn’t always shine; the wind doesn’t always blow. This is why, if we want to rely on renewables, we need intelligent systems that integrate and coordinate different sources of energy at scale so that when one is scarce or unavailable, the others can automatically compensate.
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.
My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That’s how an institution becomes one.
The Church is not an automobile showroom – a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.
I just want to share with everyone that no matter what challenges, adversities you face in life, that you can overcome them… and once you overcome those adversities, use your story, your testimony to others, to help others get through their storm.
In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example – and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Like all women, my path to womanhood is unique. No two paths are the same. Each of us travel with different privileges, challenges, and perspectives – some limiting, others illuminating.
I just try to go out and help others, to do whatever I can to make a difference.
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.
We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others.
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Our life is made by the death of others.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned.
People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
We need to understand that we are not each others’ enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction… that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
It’s far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Even if I don’t finish, we need others to continue. It’s got to keep going without me.
Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.
We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: ‘Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.’
What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.
There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
It doesn’t matter what the colour of your skin is, your sexual preference, the region where you were born, your gender. We’re all equal… We can’t take certain minorities and think they have super powers and are different from the others.
The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I’m planning to test my own boundaries.
I hope to inspire others to be confident in their own skin and to love themselves with makeup or without.
When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.
People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others.
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.
Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same disposition will be seen through their whole lives, and they will be helpless, leaning upon others for aid, expecting others to favor them and yield to them.
Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.
Dream more than others think practical.
Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you… Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it’s so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are ‘others’ whom we can legitimately make war upon.
At the end of the day, it’s a game. You play the best that you can. You need to keep a smile. You need to be nice to others. Everybody’s trying hard.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them.
I feel beautiful when I’m at peace with myself. When I’m serene, when I’m a good person, when I’ve been considerate of others.
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.
Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson‘s and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway.
I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don’t go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!
I hope that others can turn their negative thoughts into positive thoughts and improve their own lives.
The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you’ll develop skills that other professionals don’t have.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.
Stay on top of your finances. Don’t leave that up to others.
The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.
I’m not sure I’m the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don’t know very many of the others.
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
It’s easy to feel helpless – like you can’t fight the tide. But remember: small actions can have a huge impact, and one person like you can inspire others to action.
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don’t think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
The end of all knowledge should be service to others.
Some of the more popular life-centers for teens include Friends, Stuff, Enemies, Self, and Work. They each have their good points, but they are all incomplete in one way or another, and they’ll mess you up if you center your life on any one of them to the exclusion of the others.
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.
Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it’s rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you’re just renting for a while.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God’s sake.
I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.
I always put myself second – I like to make others happy.
To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we’re trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.
A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.
Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others – its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
We have to be ready to confront the risks that the terrorists and others present to our city and those risks are unique in any nation’s capital.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
Some people come into our life as a blessing, while others come into our life as a lesson, so love them for who they are instead of judging them for who they are not.
Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
One of my mantras is, ‘Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.’ I keep that with me in my back pocket. Shoot, I keep it in my front pocket! I keep it in my hair.
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.
Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our safety, compassion for the pain of others, all these are good reasons to make laws that protect people in their rights.
If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others’ feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others’ weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all – to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.
This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
There are sometimes easier games and others harder, but the Champions League always requires enormous concentration.
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don’t just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn’t know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, ‘I must have it.’
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.
Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive.
When your dreams include service to others – accomplishing something that contributes to others – it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
Someone may ask, ‘How is justice greater than all the other virtues?’ The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
I will do today what others won’t so I can do tomorrow what others can’t.
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
Respect for the rights of others means peace.
