Thinking Of Others Quotes

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Encouragement, Freedom, Business

"The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Friendship, True Friend, Heart

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Harry S. Truman

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.

Shantideva

Lying, Thinking, Source

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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

Life, Smile, Graduation

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Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.

Rick Warren

Jesus, Philosophy, Thinking

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When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Real Friends, Community, Live For Others

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It's amazing what you can accomplish if you simply refuse to quit.

Porter Stansberry

Moving Slowly, Accomplishment, Presidential

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.

Coco Chanel

Being Yourself, Inspiration, Thinking

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Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Steve Jobs

Love, Inspirational, Life

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Graduation

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Bernard Baruch

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

Angelina Jolie

Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?

Lord Dunsany

Stars, Men, Thinking

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Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

Ayn Rand

Responsibility, Men, Thinking

"The Virtue of Selfishness".

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For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.

Richard Ford

Divorce, Feel Better, Thinking

Richard Ford (2012). “The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land”, p.27, A&C Black

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Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Thinking, Mind, Excellence

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The training part," I guessed. "Yup. You're going to be Dimitri's partner." A moment of funny silence fell, probably not noticeable to anyone except Dimitri and me. Our eyes met. "Guarding partner," Dimitri clarified unnecessarily, like maybe he too had been thinking of other kinds of partners.

Richelle Mead

Eye, Thinking, Silence

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If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.

Charles William Eliot

Reading, Opportunity, Thinking

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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Tired, Thinking, Pleasure

Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.86

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Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.

Josh McDowell

Thinking, People, Firsts

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