Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

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

Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be clean, and you can be Christlike.

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

You should think about the world and feel about your heart.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people.

I would be remiss when talking about beauty secrets to not say that one of the best is to care about the world around you. That's what really matters.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

I think we should all have a responsibility not to affect other people in a negative way.

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

I'm a goodhearted person. I interact with people all the time.

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

I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.

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.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.