Thinking Of Others Quotes:

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

- Gaston Bachelard

topic: Thinking, Poetry, Thinking Of Others

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

topic: Encouragement, Freedom, Business, Way In Life, Social Good

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

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Heart, Live For Others, My Friendship

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

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Giving Credit, Inspirational Achievement

The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.

- Shantideva

topic: Lying, Thinking, Source, Thinking Of Others

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

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational Life, Be Who You Are, Mind, Keep Smiling, Way In Life

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

topic: Jesus, Philosophy, Thinking, Thinking Of Others

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

- Porter Stansberry

topic: Moving Slowly, Accomplishment, Presidential, Inspirational Presidential, Inspiring Presidential

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

- Steve Jobs

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

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

- Coco Chanel

topic: Being Yourself, Inspiration, Thinking, Just Being You, I Think Of You

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

- Steve Jobs

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inner Voice, Job Growth

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Forward In Life, Math Education

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

- Steve Jobs

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Job Growth, Inner Life

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

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Way In Life, Trying To Fit In

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Being Yourself, Book, Passion, Live For Yourself, Just Being Me

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

- Angelina Jolie

topic: Inspirational, Life, People, Just Believe In Yourself, I Think Of You

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

topic: Stars, Men, Thinking, Thinking Of Others

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

source: "The Virtue of Selfishness".

topic: Responsibility, Men, Thinking, Thinking Of Others

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

topic: Divorce, Feel Better, Night, Derision, Thinking Of Others

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

topic: Thinking, Mind, Excellence, Thinking Of Others

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

topic: Eye, Thinking, Silence, Thinking Of Others

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

topic: Reading, Opportunity, Thinking, Fine Words, Good Reading

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

topic: Tired, Thinking, Pleasure, Thinking Of Others

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

- Josh McDowell

topic: Thinking, People, Firsts, Thinking Of Others

I'd like to see education play a larger role in our daily lives, have people come to a larger understanding - a "bigger picture" understanding - of how we fit into the world, and how we fit into the universe. Not necessarily thinking of ourselves, but thinking of others.

- George Lucas

source: "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

topic: Thinking, Play, People, Thinking Of Others

The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.

- Ramana Maharshi

source: Sri Ramana Maharshi (1991). “Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi”, p.137, Penguin UK

topic: Inspiration, Thinking, Practice, Thinking Of Others

Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

- Jane Smiley

topic: Teaching, Eye, Thinking, Third Time, Thinking Of Others

Mrs. Darling: There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams. Michael: Where did he put them? Mrs. Darling: He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.

- James M. Barrie

topic: Dream, Father, Sacrifice, Thinking Of Others

One of the easiest ways to solve your problems is to look at how others have solved a similar problem. So, in this regard, we are using the same thinking of others.

- Lewis Schiff

topic: Thinking, Looks, Way, Thinking Of Others, Same Thinking