Quotes About Others

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

He who helps in the saving of others, saves himself as well.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

The beauty of the God girl is that she isn't about "me" all the time.

Thoughtfulness is misread as uncertainty; melancholy is misunderstood as a stubborn refusal to play nicely with others.

Radical groups with distant goals could find comfort in an isolated purity, while those who tasted success saw the value of accommodating the views of others.

Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.

To love others you must first love yourself.

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

but they must long feel that to flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

La vanité et l'orgueil sont choses différentes, bien qu'on emploie souvent ces deux mots l'un pour l'autre ; on peut être orgueilleux sans être vaniteux. L'orgueil se rapporte plus à l'opinion que nous avons de nous-mêmes, la vanité à celle que nous voudrions que les autres aient de nous.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to out opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what others think of us.

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity towhat we would have others think of us.

what would happen to others, not oneself. Rosanna thought that was what accounted for the crowd's

Your own endurance might be a pleasant fiction allowed you by others who've really faced the facts.

No, I didn't think of myself as an idealist. I consider myself as a believer in what I regard as the Labour Party's basic principles, which have to do with equality and 'do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. You know, the golden rules.

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.

Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda.

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.