Orson Bean Quotes

It's all about togetherness and to pay the other the necessary respect. If you do that, then we all would feel better. It is not always a taking but also a giving in both directions.

I would say I'm a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so there's no reason for anyone to ever come at me because I only want the best for everybody else.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

You just always do what will make the other fellow feel comfortable, at ease, and then everything else will be all right.

Do good to others, be good to yourselves.

I was never selfish, and I see a lot of things. If I see a person in a better position than me, I will give him my assist. This is also my way of thinking, and I expect that from my team-mate for me.

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

I know that if I concentrate on making other people shine, I will shine. It is really about the other person, never about you.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Do not do unto others what would not be good for yourself.

… what can be more honorable than gladly to acquiesce in the prosperity of all men?...

I've always tried to balance my life with what is good for me but also keeping in mind how it affects somebody else.

I care about what's best for everyone around me.

I have a lot of people I respect and a lot of people I have time for - reciprocity isn't necessary.

I would say that the best compliment I have gotten is from teachers who say they can tell that my kids come from a big family because they can see that they anticipate other people's needs and they don't think the world revolves around them.

Life is not all about parties and frolicking. You have to show you care for people, too.

Yes, there will be situations when you may need to be a little selfish, but it is better to find the right balance.