Quotes About Others

In Hollywood you'll see a lot of big stars supporting non-profits which is so great but Paul really wanted to be a physical force behind really getting down and dirty and helping others.

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.

How I hurt my knee was doing something so minimal that it was a little worrisome. To try that motion and others again, after the injury and after surgery, made you worry a bit.

It is said by some that the gods show us their bitter humor by molding us into what we hate most in others.

Just as thinking is the soul speaking to itself (Theaetetus 189e), forcing itself to articulate its reasons and exposing those reasons to evaluation as if to different aspects of its own self, so we enlarge our thinking by bringing others into the dialogue.

James Baldwin famously wrote, "If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

APRIL 17 WHATEVER WE SAY, let us speak clearly and to the point, in a voice that is calm and pleasant, unaffected by attachment or hatred. Look kindly at others, thinking : It is thanks to them that I shall attain Buddhahood.

There are lessons in life that we all have to experience for ourselves. There are other lessons that we can learn from others, lessons that spare us the pain and cost of experience.

Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

Religion can endanger the life of the pious individual, as well as the lives of others.

Your own healing is the greatest message of hope for others.

Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it; some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and then there are those whose main concern is to avoid further damage to themselves, at whatever cost. And those are the ones who are ruthless, and the ones to be careful of.

For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits.

Choosing a standard, in other words, is to commit oneself to others.

it would be well if I believed the child's eyes with complete confidence. Wouldn't anybody first have to return to this kind of intuition if he sincerely wanted to face others?

Ethics is not a geometrical calculation; others are never very far from us; they and we are co-constituted and entangled through the very cuts we help to enact. Cuts cut things together and apart. Cuts are not enacted from the outside, nor are they ever enacted once and for all.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.

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.

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.