Randy Pausch Quotes

When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.

What I've always valued is people.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.

No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

The solution to all the problems of daily life is to cherish others.

The phrase "Be Good to Each Other" is very important to me and something that I wish had been said more when I was in high school.

Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

What I'm looking for in people now is kindness.