Other Centered Quotes

I always put myself second - I like to make others happy.

To perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person, but without ever losing the "as if" condition. Thus, it means to sense the hurt or the pleasure of another as he senses it and to perceive the causes thereof as he perceives them, but without ever losing the recognition that it is as if I were hurt or pleased and so forth.

The entrepreneur rarely thinks in terms of what he or she wants, but dreams about results - always results and nothing but results - that can solve someone else's problem or contribute to making someone else's life better.

Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.

The life of Jesus is a life for others. It is a life of service.

Everything I ever learned I was told by someone else.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself.

Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it.

I forget about myself and tend to concentrate too much on others.

Be more concerned with everybody else than yourself.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

The key lesson for me: Don't make this life about you. It's about other people.

Biblical love is not emotions or feelings, but attitudes and actions that seek the best interests of the other person, regardless of how we feel toward him.

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.

I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.