Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it's possible that I'm a victim of my own job description. Others don't inevitably agree. Some will opine that there are better ways to spend the money.
Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
I want to get involved in causes I believe in, and I know so many others that want to also get involved, but it's hard to know how. Often, it's through big organisations, and you don't know exactly where your money is going or what effect you are having.
I have been able to enjoy the strides that others have made before me. I don't want to scoff at the idea that there was sexism, but I don't wake up in the morning and think, 'I am a woman in tech.' I just go to work, and my work is in technology.
Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.
Not at all do I trust augurs, who enrich the ears of others, so that they can enrich their own homes with gold.
Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.
Millions of statements are made about the president every day on every subject and from every standpoint; threats of violence are not an integral feature of any one subject or viewpoint as distinct from others. Differential treatment of threats against the president, then, selects nothing but special risks, not special messages.
Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.
I remember everything, even the dates. But I don't want others to remember the details, just the image.
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us.
I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.
What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
