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Martin Seligman, Martin E. P. "Marty" Seligman
When we are happy, we are less self-focused, we like others more, and we want to share our good fortune even with strangers. When we are down, though, we become distrustful, turn inward, and focus defensively on our own needs. Looking out for Number One is more characteristic of sadness than of well-being.
May Sarton, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton
De Gaulle did not call in "writers"; the very idea is grotesque. The leader who allows others to speak for him is abdicating.
Leader |
Mencius, born Meng Ke or Ko NULL
Some labor with their minds and some labor with their strength. Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others. Those who are governed by others support them; those who govern them are supported by them. This is a universal principal.
Michael Toms and Justine Willis Toms
Basically, human beings want satisfaction and fulfillment, and we especially want to feel a sense of accomplishment in what we are doing. Being of service and achieving something of value to others while feeling balanced and healthy are the essential reasons for working.
Accomplishment | Fulfillment | Sense | Service | Value |
Mencius, born Meng Ke or Ko NULL
Try your best to treat others as you wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.
Benevolence | Will |
Mencius, born Meng Ke or Ko NULL
He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, others serf, some rulers, other subjects.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the times.
Time |
Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin, fully Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
Respect for the freedom of others is the highest duty of man. To love this freedom and to serve it – such is the only virtue. That is the basis of all morality; and there can be no other.
Duty | Freedom | Love | Man | Morality | Respect | Virtue | Virtue |
Bessie Anderson Stanley, fully Elizabeth-Anne "Bessie" Anderson Stanley
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much: Who has gained the respect of intelligent men, and the love of little children: Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task: Who has left the world better than he has found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul: Who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it: Who has looked for the best in others and given the best he had: Whose life was an inspiration: whose memory is a benediction.
Appreciation | Beauty | Better | Children | Earth | Inspiration | Life | Life | Little | Love | Memory | Men | Respect | Soul | Success | World | Appreciation | Respect | Beauty | Poem |
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, native form is Csíkszentmihályi Mihály
It is not a circular motion that returns to where one started, but rather, it resembles an ascending spiral, where concern for the self becomes steadily qualified by less selfish goals and concern for others becomes ore individualistic and personally meaningful.
The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, then leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.
Memory | Originality |
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach toward immortality.
Immortality | Life | Life |
The way of this world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Esteem | Evidence | Generosity | Kindness | Respect | Self | Self-esteem | Will |