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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Joan Didion

Great, Power, Give

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Strength, Eyes, Weak

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot

May, Happen, Play

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Character, Company, Takes

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
Helen Rowland

Woman, Himself, Thinks

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
James A. Baldwin

Help, Nothing, Human

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Zi

Through, Gentleman, Ability

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Marian Wright Edelman

Life, Children, College

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
Stephen Covey

Happy, Abundance, Pie

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Freedom, Wine, Makes

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Marquis de Sade

Thought, Mode, Caused

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill

Good, Power, Moral

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Marcel Proust

Practice, Hidden, South

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men, Human, Single

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
Michel de Montaigne

Mind, Speak, Minds

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
Jose Marti

Men, Light, Stars

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
Eric Hoffer

Eyes, Themselves, Reflection

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken

Life, Mistakes, Human

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Horace

Often, Crime, Disgrace

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Horace

Often, Minds, Vice

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
Andre Maurois

Appreciate, Frankness, Insolence

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown

Health, Money, Important

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Lord Byron

Trust, Good, Selfish

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
Colin Powell

Society, Unhappy, Seeing

Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
E. O. Wilson

Care, Loyalty, Nothing

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Alexander the Great

Power, Knowledge, Rather

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson

Nothing, Himself, Ability

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Truth, Someone

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe

True, Whatever, Sober

People striving for approval from others become phony.
Ichiro Suzuki

Become, Striving, Phony

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