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Quotes About Others

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
~ SARTRE JEAN-PAUL
The only reasonable goal in life is maximizing your total lifetime experience of something called happiness. That might sound selfish, but it's not. Only a sociopath or a hermit can find happiness through extreme selfishness. A normal person needs to treat others well in order to enjoy life.
~ Scott Adams
But my Country has in its Wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant Office that ever the invention of Man contrived or his Imagination conceived: and as I can do neither good nor Evil, I must be borne away by Others and meet the common Fate.
~ John Adams
Something Ought to be written about how this affects Something Ought to be written about how this affects You when you write poetry: The extreme austerity of an almost empty mind Colliding with the lush, Rousseau-like foliage of its desire to communicate Something between breaths, if only for the sake Of others and their desire to understand you and desert you For other centers of communication, so that understanding May begin, and in doing so be undone.
~ John Ashbery
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.
~ John Buchanan Robinson
It teaches us not to regard others according to their own merits, but to consider in them the image of God to which we owe both honor and love. But
~ John Calvin
We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.
~ John Calvin
But I feared more the death of others. I did not want to lose them, I worried about them while they were alive. Sometimes I think I concerned myself so much with the possibility of their loss that I never truly took pleasure in the fact of their existence.
~ John Connolly
Angel and Louis in particular could have catalyzed a coma victim back to consciousness. He knew where Parker and the others were
~ John Connolly
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
~ Herb Kelleher
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .
~ John Stuart Mill
Yet, Jesus is selfless in the way He gives His life away for you. So if your gaze is on Him, you will treat others as He is treating you.
~ Louie Giglio
We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.
~ William Barclay
Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.
~ Alan Keyes
As the sun pours forth its life that we on this Earth may live, may I pour forth my life this day in service to others and in love for you, my beloved God.
~ Edward Hays
Our dependence on culture means that our minds need to be open to others, so that we can learn from them.
~ Edward Slingerland
God's love is a costly love. It never takes the easy path away from relationships. Instead, it plots how to move towards other people. It thinks creatively of ways to surprise them with love.
~ Edward T. Welch
The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
~ Edward Thorndike
A fool authority neither constitutes balanced and concrete policies, nor lets to perform that others; thus, all the matters stay on risk and fail consequently.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Ambition to overcome own desires is the best perception; whereas, to do with others is the worst conception.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Father Day, I feel and realize not that since my all the Days are for others; what establishes only this one Day? -
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Living for others is a charity of life; it is a path of sacred ones.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Shyness blocks and breaks routes toward the fraternizing with others and success of career and life.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
One's self is the basis of everything. Every action is a manifestation of the self. A person who doesn't know himself can do nothing for others." "What I meant—I wasn't acting to satisfy my own desires." "Shut up! Don't you see you're barely grown? There's nothing more frightening than a half-baked do-gooder who knows nothing of the world but takes it upon himself to tell the world what's good for it.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa