Quotes About Others

That's the key. The quests are things you need to do for others so that you can learn.

Be sincere - the surest was to become special in other's eyes is to make them feel special

Countercultural liberties can open pathways to well-being that aren't recognized by mainstream culture—but can also result in a reckless disregard for self and others.

I was overcome by a wave of wonder at how much good was going on, and how you heard about the bad things that happened so much that you overlooked the immensely disproportionate majority of other acts done to the real benefit of self and others without which none of this would be here at all.

Here again the concept of stewardship serves as a helpful guiding principle. Rights are not something you deserve and possess for your own benefit. Rather, they are privileges given to you by God, and he wants you to use them for his glory and to benefit others, especially by helping them know Christ. As a steward, it is also appropriate to consider your needs and personal responsibilities

The conscience is a communal organ—a way of knowing that we do with others formed always in reference to others.

autêntica humildade -- um coração mais interessado na glória de Deus do que na nossa, e mais aplicado a servir aos outros do que a nós mesmos. Esta é, de fato, a postura da humildade para a qual Deus olha.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Our insensitivity as self-betrayers is best described not as attending to ourselves rather than to others, but rather as attending to others for our sake rather than for their sake.

All these guiding principles in therapy confront the doctor with important ethical duties which can be summed up in the single rule: be the man through whom you wish to influence others.

In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others.

Passion can never be genuine unless the preacher owns a burning need for a God-relationship. Zeal must own the herald before the herald can preach it into others.

By her desperate actions, she drove others to desperation, and so we came to be deprived of our brightest ally , our purest colors.

my only journey of concern was to be like the sun, to make it through the day offering as much light and warmth and consistency for others as I could—one single day. Each day.

After the institution, Archer told me there's something about you…an inner strength very few people possess. A goodness untouched by the evil around you. A generosity of spirit that allows you to put the safety of others above the safety of yourself.

Most every old civilizations looks at others--members of the same species but not of the same tribe--as wild men. It's a common rationalization, because when you reduce someone else to a level of something like an animal, it makes them easier to kill.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

It's not always about one's personal happiness. Sometimes it has to be about the obligation we have to others. A duty to pay back for the gift you were given.

It wasn't our bad habits which really scared us; we got too used to them, they only worried others. It was the odd, unpredictable, brutal impulse you fought to restrain, the one that the rest never even saw and hopefully never would.

It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same

I tried to show my affection and gratitude with small attentions, but he would not allow it; he was not used to receiving affection, although it was his nature to squander it on others.

it was only a vague empathy for others that prevented her from being a psychopath.

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.