William J. H. Boetcker Quotes

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

When people are nice to me, I'm nice to them.

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

Mankind's salvation lies exclusively in everyone's making everything his business, in the people of the East being anything but indifferent to what is thought in the West, and in the people of the West being anything but indifferent to what happens in the East.

We should be tolerant to people who are tolerant to us. We should be intolerant to people who are intolerant to us.

I think I am like anyone else. I respect other people and, of course, I expect that it works the other way around.

I know a lot is expected of me, but I'm surrounded by some great teammates.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.

People say when you're in love, you don't need etiquette. Well, you need it then more than anything. Or they say, "At home I can just be myself." What they mean is they can be their worst selves... They always mean they will save all their anxiety about how to behave for somebody like the head waiter of a restaurant, someone they'll never see again.

You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.

Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

It's not always like I'm right, and you're wrong. It's both ways.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.