I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. – John C. Maxwell
Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques – but no one actually wants to become like them. – John Ortberg
I grew up being taught, ‘Do unto others as they would do unto you.’ I would get scolded for not being polite. – Joel Edgerton
In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others. – John Quincy Adams
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. – Joseph Conrad
I’m a storyteller; that’s what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven’t been and returning to tell a story they haven’t heard before. – James Cameron
Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. – Ivan Turgenev
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. – Jean de la Bruyere
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. – John Burroughs
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the ‘personality-cult’ of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself. – Italo Calvino
A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others. – Indira Gandhi
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment. – Isaac Barrow
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests. – J. William Fulbright
While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select few excel. – John Ridley
Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. – Joseph Stiglitz
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others. – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it. – Joshua Waitzkin