Others First Quotes

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

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.

There is a sign that hangs on my wall that says, 'What is it you want me to do to somebody else that is more important than what you want me to do for you?'

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

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.

I like to keep everyone happy. I feel like it's my responsibility to do that.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.

Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else.

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

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

It's not about you. It's about them.

Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

What we're doing for another person is more important than what we're feeling for them.

They alone live, who live for others.

I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.