Bob Goff Quotes

Every man should esteem his neighbor as himself.

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.

One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there's just an understanding that we're all good people, let's be nice to each other. And Kiwis have that. I find the Kiwis have that.

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

I think that is very important to me, that everyone loves everyone.

I have spent over 50 years preaching and teaching the values of peace, mutual respect and altruism.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

Let's face it: people don't have respect for other people. That's the story here. When everyone is respected, then we can all live within magic.

Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.

Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to that of others reflects the understanding that individual happiness needs a base broader than the mere satisfaction of selfish passions. From there, it is not such a large step to the realization that respecting the susceptibilities and rights of others is as important as defending one's own susceptibilities and rights if civilized society is to be safeguarded.

Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered.

The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.

Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.

In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.

A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.