Alfred Adler Quotes

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'

I'm saying that you can create success for yourself but also understand that you have a responsibility to others.

The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.

Once kids begin to realize that they are connected to a greater good and greater whole, then that will lessen the possibility that they will act out violently because it creates empathy.

It's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

A life not lived for others is not a life, a game not played for others is not a game.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.

We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.

Success is all about being able to extend love to people. The people I consider successful are so because of how they handle their responsibilities to other people, how they approach the future, people who have a full sense of the value of their life and what they want to do with it.

Our Lord insists on the social aspect of our lives: He shows very distinctly that we cannot further ourselves alone.

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts.

When we focus on others, our world expands.

I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community.

We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.

If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.