Others Quotes

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

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.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

We all get so caught up in our day-to-day lives and have so many gripes. But when you see the way others live and how they make the best of it, you'll realize how lucky you are.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

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.

We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys.

Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.'

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.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.