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Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

George Bernard Shaw

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

George Bernard Shaw

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Aristotle

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

Nikki Giovanni

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Socrates

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.

Oscar Wilde

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Oscar Wilde

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Michael Jordan

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Richard M. Nixon

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Dutch Proverb

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Henry Ford

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

John F. Kennedy

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson

If you dig a grave for others, you might fall into it yourself.

Irish Proverb

War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Lao tzu

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Lao tzu

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Deepak Chopra

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Bob Dylan

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

Bill Clinton

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Martin Luther King Jr.

It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

Rita Mae Brown

If you want happiness, provide it to others.

Frank Tyger

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

Lao tzu

He who knows others is wise;He who know himself is enlightened.

Lao tzu

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Carl Sagan

Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

Lao tzu

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The Dalai Lama

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Aldous Huxley

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.

Epictetus

It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.

Epictetus

Live simply that others may simply live.

Mahatma Gandhi

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry

To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Laurence Sterne

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Theodore Roosevelt

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Richard M. Nixon

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Michel de Montaigne

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

Michel de Montaigne

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

Michel de Montaigne

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Michel de Montaigne

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Alfred North Whitehead

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Alfred North Whitehead

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

English Proverb

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Alexander Graham Bell

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

Let everyone regulate his conduct . . . by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

William Wilberforce

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Pythagoras

When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes.

Howard W. Newton

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Aesop

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Aesop

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Aesop

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.

Niccolo Machiavelli

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

Woodrow Wilson

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.

Sri Chinmoy

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

Confucius

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Confucius

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Confucius

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

Confucius

Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

Lewis Carroll

...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

J. K. Rowling

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Nelson Mandela

Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.

Sir Francis Bacon

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Nelson Mandela

To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.

Frank Tyger

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

Franklin P. Adams

Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

John Ruskin

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Jimmy Carter

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Samuel Butler

The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.

Chinese Proverb

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

Cyril Connolly

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Cyril Connolly

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Vernon Howard

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Lawana Blackwell

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

Joe Paterno

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves -- at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others -- at what they did or did not do.

Peter McWilliams

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Ayn Rand

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Paul Mccartney

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

Benito Mussolini

Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.

Peter McWilliams

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

The Dalai Lama

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Lou Holtz

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Jonathan Swift

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

Blaise Pascal

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Blaise Pascal

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

Publilius Syrus

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Patrick Henry

The scars of others should teach us caution.

Saint Jerome

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

Hasidic Saying

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Cicero

I did feel like I was more confident on the court this season, but that's because there were a lot of good athletes on the floor with me. Even if I had a bad game, there were others who could step up and make the points.

Whitney Zachariason

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

Albert Einstein

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

Real Live Preacher

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

Eric Hoffer

God, I don't have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

William Hazlitt

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Thomas Moore

Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

Joseph Conrad

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Thomas Hobbes

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

Eric Hoffer

We can be dangerous in the playoffs, ... A team that others would not want to play.

Jovan Kirovski

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

J. Michael Straczynski

Our recommendations are not a Chinese menu, ... They are a whole system. If all of the important elements are not adopted, it makes it very difficult for the others to succeed.

John Lehman

Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.

Real Live Preacher

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Thich Nhat Hanh

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

Bertrand Russell

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Pope John Paul Ii

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia Woolf

Others who have been mentioned should do the same.

Mwalimu Mati

Members of our community feel so compelled by their disappointment they want to share it with others.

Neil Giuliano

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

Mary Pettibone Poole

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.

Washington Irving

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

It's hard to listen to people sometimes who have been to neither place. It's (also) often hard for me to understand how people who have been there would allow others to go there if they have any say about it.

Paul Mooney

Although National has hundreds of Boomer amplifiers, we currently offer eight Class D Boomer amplifiers. It's a smaller subset of the family. The others are mostly Class AB amplifiers.

Gary Adrig

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

Henry David Thoreau

We use this technique more than some others we compete with and frankly, we think we use it to our competitive advantage, ... The fact that we are the only ones doing buyouts in Northern California, well frankly, we like that.

Steve Burd

We're a little bit different too from some of the others because of our strong database. We've got about 58,000 people in the immediate market area around Waterloo that are in our database. Obviously, they came to an Isle of Capri casino somewhere along the line. That's a good asset for us. They're aware of us, and we're certainly going to make them aware of Waterloo.

Nancy Donovan

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.

John Stuart Mill

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Alexander Pope

The more you've suffered, the more you've wanted to bring healing to others.

Ralph Edwards

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Samuel Johnson

We have a long way to go before cyclists and motorists ride on each other's wheels, instead of walk in each other's shoes.

Richard Meritzer

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

Thomas Hood

This event allows students to learn about their own and others' backgrounds. We should all embrace other cultures and learn to live lives of celebration and joy.

Josh Taylor

No one's really better than the others. We just try to work together and motivate each other.

Mike Burns

We learned at the time that all of the others have been caught or committed suicide. Brenda's is the only domestic violence (murder) that hasn't been solved.

Shelby Steen's

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

William Hazlitt

We need to stand up when others tell us to sit down, and we need to speak out when others tell us to be silent.

Bob Edgar

Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

Gunter Grass

I think the biggest thing about bringing chemistry to a line is learning each other's tendencies. I think when we capitalize on those things we can be a very good line.

Cory Stillman

It's an opportunity for local and area Pagans to get together with each other. It's an opportunity to raise some money for charity and to enjoy each others' company.

Amanda Zuke

We have not studied all of them. Many of them may be sound, while there may be others that merit override consideration.

Paul Larrabee

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

Hugh Downs

We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

They're in there by the thousands. You could see them literally coming up along the banks. The ones we caught didn't even put a dent in them. We would throw one in the cooler, two others would jump out and we'd have to chase them through the woods.

Mark Hammond

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Marquis De Sade

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

Saint John Chrysostom

He's one of those kids who influences others not to make poor choices.

Tony Davis

I absolutely made the right decision. The key is serving others. That is the key to happiness for any person. Serving others brings great joy. But the major difference now is that I don't have to be exhausted anymore. I do only one job, and that's big. No, that's huge.

Rob Willmann

The approach is not to limit the choice, but to provide a broader choice. It's appropriate to have choices that are indulgent and others that are better for you.

Richard Wyckoff

All the people know each other and we watch out for each other's kids. If my grandkids are doing something they shouldn't somebody is going to correct them.

Asa Boring

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense Ken Keys, JR The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

Harold Sherman

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

A good thing is to do unto others as you would want them to do unto you. If you don't apply it anywhere else in your life, do it on a plane.

Mimi Rodriguez

I think you get great strength from hearing from others and knowing that you're not by yourself.

Lana Thompson

These companies feel that others are not putting enough effort into research and innovation, and they are doing something about it.

Michael Goulde

Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.

Bob Moawad

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

H. L. Mencken

He was asking me what he should do, and at that time I told him that if he had the courage and the heart to do it, that he should go to the court and that he should acknowledge that he was responsible and the others were not.

Joseph Towle

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

Lech Walesa

Some days are better than others, ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

Brian Robertson

I'm just so blessed to be able to do what I just love and have loved since I was a teenager, since I first found it, and to be encouraged by others for it.

Angela Bassett

That's the first rocket that landed in the kibbutz. The Palestinians have since fired others, but they land mostly in the fields.

Gidi Sabag

With this we can truly showcase all of the things our clients are doing throughout the year. Just the littlest things we can do for our clients can help them and others be achievers.

Stephanie Anderson

Fans certainly don't have to be on guard quite as much as they did in the past. Some fans are more observant that others, but this takes care of all those concerned in the stadium.

Gary Overton

Talent is more visible now across various functional silos, so your boss may know where the opportunities for advancement are -- not just in his or her area but in others areas as well.

Jim Kochanski

We create grave risk to others also, and that has to stop.

David Baugh

I'm not sure it would have mattered. We didn't have her. There's no excuses. We needed others to step up and not enough did.

Gene Nakamura

This partnership gives two strong media companies an opportunity to draw on each others' resources.

John Lansing

The size of the film is enormous. Take our space films, 'To Fly' and the others -- they are the size of a coffee table. This is the size of a large, large conference table.

Toby Mensforth

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

John Wooden

Each club knows what the hot buttons are in their market, ... aren't realistic when some clubs have suffered more than others under the past CBA.

Bernadette Mansur

We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don't know, of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Tad Williams

What we have with this band is a family thing where we all really respect each other's playing.

Alan Evans

He does not live in vain; who employs his wealth, his thought, and his speech to advance the good of others.

Hindu Proverb

I don't think students are actually as astute as they could (be) about the motives of others to investigate their social networks.

Michael Bugeja

It's about time. Once you see guys like Sanjay led away in handcuffs, maybe it will put the fear of God in others.

Dale Ross

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

George V. Higgins