Others Quotes

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, Oh! don’t you wish that you were me? You have seen the scarlet trees, And the lions over seas; You have eaten ostrich eggs, And turned the turtle off their legs. Such a life is very fine, But it’s not so nice as […]

Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? (Matthew 7:3)

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have occurred to others.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings. (Acts 17:26)

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

I miss the meaning of my own part in the play of life because I know not the parts that others play.