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Quotes About Others

Il faut se prêter à autrui et ne se donner qu'à soi-même.
~ Montaigne
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
~ Napoleon Hill
If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.
~ Napoleon Hill
Points to ponder: Have you a method by which you can shield yourself against the negative influence of others? Are you easily influenced by others, against your own judgment? Do you form your own opinions or permit yourself to be influenced by other people?
~ Napoleon Hill
You will find happiness only by helping others to find it.
~ Napoleon Hill
The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.
~ Carlos Castaneda
allowing the Divine to awaken part of your spirit that contains the essence of what you are capable of contributing to others as well as to yourself.
~ Caroline Myss
In accepting the culture of consumerism, homes become a monument to personal style and taste, rather than places of service to others.
~ Carolyn McCulley
The talents of others are a reminder of our place in the universe.
~ Cavan Scott
There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family.
~ Brian Cox
It's a joy to help others. One of our longtime favorites is Rawhide Boys Camp, located 45 miles west of Green Bay.
~ Bart Starr
When we see the nature of interbeing, barriers between ourselves and others are dissolved, and peace, love, and understanding are possible. Whenever there is understanding, compassion is born. Just
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
People seek the society of others who are exciting, disconcerting and volatile, who are never the same from one moment to the next and usually change complexion completely.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Me, me, me is dull, dull, dull.
~ Thomas J. Stanley
More often than not, UAWs allow "significant others" to determine their financial lifestyle. Interestingly, these "significant others," or reference groups, turn out to be more imagined than real.
~ Thomas J. Stanley
But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others.
~ Thomas Merton
He who is controlled by objects Loses possession of his inner self: If he no longer values himself, How can he value others? If he no longer values others, He is abandoned. He has nothing left!
~ Thomas Merton
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean, first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.
~ Thomas Merton
We become ourselves by dying to ourselves. We gain only what we give up, and if we give up everything we can everything. We cannot find ourselves within ourselves, but only in others, yet at the same time, before we can go out to others we must find ourselves.
~ Thomas Merton
All these three answers are insufficient. The third says we must love only ourselves. The second says we must love only another. The first says that in loving another we simply seek the most effective way to love ourselves. The true answer, which is supernatural, tells us that we must love ourselves in order to be able to love others, that we must find ourselves by giving ourselves to them. The words of Christ are clear: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
~ Thomas Merton
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
~ Thomas Moore
and men of science,' cries dixon, 'may be but the simple tools of others, with no more idea of what they are about, than a hammer knows of a house.
~ Thomas Pynchon
why the desire to increase and retain one's own earnings should be characterized negatively as "greed," while wishing to live at the expense of others is not.
~ Thomas Sowell
Here we discover the paradox of the contemplative life, that the desert of solitude can be the school where we learn to love others.
~ Kathleen Norris