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Quotes About Others

Well, let's see. Guardians spend all their time watching out for others, risking their lives, and wearing bad shoes. Me? I have great shoes, am currently massaging a pretty girl, and sleep in an awesome bed." I made a face. "Let's not talk about where you sleep, okay?
~ Richelle Mead
Servants focus on others, not themselves. This is true humility: not thinking less of ourselves but thinking of ourselves less
~ Rick Warren
Love means giving up - yielding my preferences, comfort, goals, security, money, energy, or time for the benefit of someone else.
~ Rick Warren (Author)
Almost the whole range of biblical narrative, however, embodies the basic perception that man must live before God, in the transforming medium of time, incessantly and perplexingly in relation with others; and a literary perspective on the operations of narrative may help us more than any other to see how this perception was translated into stories that have had such a powerful, enduring hold on the imagination.
~ Robert Alter
Self-interest at its healthiest implicitly recognizes the self-interest of others, and therein lies the possibility of compromise. A rigid moral position admits few compromises.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
Don't let a day go by without meditation and prayer for some definite purpose, and not for self, but that self may be the channel of help to someone else. For in helping others is the greater way to help self.
~ Kevin J. Todeschi
For he that contributes only to his own welfare soon finds little to work for. He that contributes only to the welfare of others soon finds too much of others and has lost the appreciation of self, or of its ideals." (3478-2)
~ Kevin J. Todeschi
Vi andre blir til det lille vi blir fordi er så almindelige. Han er fra et grænseland som er ukjendt for os.
~ Knut Hamsun
A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
~ L. Frank Baum
Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness.
~ Brandon Bays
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
As the little boy said to the Sunday School teacher after being told the reason we are on Earth is to help others: "Then what are the others here for?"
~ Anonymous
The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on Earth.
~ Wilfred Grenfell
My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.
~ Charles J. Ingersoll
I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others.
~ Chris Matakas
Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.
~ Dalai Lama
If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can't expect from others what you don't give to yourself.
~ Shams Tabrizi
Always think of yourself as everyone's servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all.
~ Teresa of Avila
Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.
~ Danny Barker
I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.
~ Little Milton
The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
~ Ayad Akhtar
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
~ Ayn Rand
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
~ Edward Irving
Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky