Quotes About Others

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (1778 - 1830)

Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.

You do not know me,' said Tortoise. 'I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

The second you make it all about you, is the second you've already lost. It's about people - it always has been and it always will be.

I've come to think that's what heaven is—a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on. Maybe

He revealed his own character when he wrote, "I seem to be here to care more for others than for myself, and am well content with this destiny.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

When you walk in the light, you will feel some of the warmth and the happiness that will finally be yours when you are welcomed home again with the hundreds and perhaps thousands of others whom you will bring with you, who have walked in the light because you did.

Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism.

I dont never hav enny trouble in regulating mi own kondukt, but tew keep other pholks straight iz what bothers me.

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

My vague confused dreams became a reality and the reality became an oppressive, difficult, joyless life. All remained the same. Once it seemed so plain and right that to live for others was happiness; now it has become unintelligible. Why live for others, when life had no attraction even for oneself?

All men love live not by what they may intend for their own well-being, but by the love that dwells in others.

All men live not by what they intend for their own well being, but by the love that dwells in others.

on which side is truth,—on the side of the thoughts which seem true and well-founded, or on the side of the lives of others and myself?

Ma come si può vivere solo per se stessi?" domandò Pierre accalorandosi. "E tuo figlio, tua sorella, tuo padre?" "Ma loro sono pur sempre me stesso, loro non sono gli altri," rispose il principe Andrej. "Gli altri, invece, le prochain, come lo chiami tu, come lo chiama la principessina Mar'ja, sono la fonte principale dell'errore e del male.

There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.

The deepest roots of this modern shift are twofold: in epistemology, the romanticist advocacy of feeling as superior to reason; in ethics, the altruist advocacy of others as superior to self. The result is a view of morality in which the ruling standard is: the feelings of others.

We bless others naturally through our strengths. But we bless others supernaturally through our weaknesses.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat.

The gifts God bestows are not from us, nor are they for us so that we can feel good about ourselves. They are to be used to benefit others and glorify him (1 Peter 4:10).

First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.