Quotes about Others

"Only a life lived for others is a life worth while."
-Albert Einstein

"In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake."
-Henry David Thoreau

"True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others."
-Voltaire

"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too."
-Voltaire

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
-Voltaire

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."
-Abraham Lincoln

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others."
-Mark Twain

"It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others."
-Mark Twain

"October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February."
-Mark Twain

"Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great."
-Mark Twain

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."
-Buddha

"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others."
-George Orwell

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
-George Orwell

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."
-George Orwell

"Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us."
-Nikki Giovanni

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."
-Pablo Picasso

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
-Carl Jung

"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
-Carl Jung

"I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."
-Aristotle

"Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain."
-Andre Gide