Concern For Others Quotes - Page 2

• Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Courage, America

  First Radio Address following 9/11, delivered 15 September 2001

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• Because He came to earth, we have a perfect example to follow. As we strive to become more like Him, we will have joy and happiness in our lives and peace each day of the year. It is His example which, if followed, stirs within us more kindness and love, more respect and concern for others.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Kindness, Years, Perfect

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• The more we feel concern for others and seek their well-being, the more friends we will have and the more welcome we will feel.

  Dalai Lama

  Welcome, Well Being, Wells

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• Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Well Being, Wells

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• I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Thinking, Rights, Sight

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the individual is happier, his or her family is happier; if families are happy, neighborhoods and nations will be happy. By transforming ourselves we can change our human way of life and make this a century of compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Peaceful, Way

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• My belief is that the various religious traditions have great potential to increase compassion, the sense of caring for one another, and the spirit of reconciliation. However, I believe that a human being, without religious faith, can be a very good person - sincere, a good heart, having a sense of concern for others - without belief in a particular religious faith.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Believe, Heart

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• Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Hands, Practice

  The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone.

  Bill Gates

  Caring, Self, Circles

  Remarks by Bill Gates at World Economic Forum 2008 "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century" in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Practice, Desire

  The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed: to let Him grow humility and concern for others in a way I had never experienced, to live out His peace amid whirling chaos.

  Tara Leigh Cobble

  Christian, Selfish, Inspiration

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• Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Giving, Important

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• I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.

  Robert Fripp

  Morning, Views, Shining

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• Mentally, physically and emotionally we are the same.
  
  We each have the potential to good and bad and to be overcome by disturbing emotions such as anger, fear, hatred, suspicion and greed. These emotions can be the cause of many problems.
  
  On the other hand if you cultivate loving kindness, compassion and concern for others, there will be no room for anger, hatred and jealousy.

  Dalai Lama

  Jealousy, Kindness, Compassion

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• Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of problems for ourselves. Encountering those problems, anger develops and overwhelms our mind, which leads to violence. A good way to counter this and to work for a more peaceful world is to develop concern for others. Then our anger, jealousy and other destructive emotions will naturally weaken and diminish.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Jealousy, Wisdom

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• The atonement of Jesus Christ is the supreme act of love, the supreme example of selfless concern for others.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Love, Jesus, Example

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• My main interest is in the promotion of human values. From birth we have a sense of affection and some sense of concern for others. We need to nurture it. Scientists have found that to ensure even physical health peace of mind is essential. People often think that love and compassion are only matters of religious concern, but in fact such values are necessary in all human relations

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Religious, Buddhist

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• ...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others

  Karen Armstrong

  Compassion, Inspire, Selfless

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• This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Block, Thinking, People

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• As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.

  James P. Comer

  Children, Moral Development, Self

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• A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume.

  Gore Vidal

  Self, Greed, Narcissistic

  "Screening History (Growing Up With Gore Vidal)". Book by Gore Vidal (p. 24), 1994.

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• Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others, prudence, and so on, but there is nothing special about sex in this respect, for the same could be said of decisions about driving a car. (In fact, the moral issues raised by driving a car, both from an environmental and from a safety point of view, are much more serious than those raised by sex.)

  Peter Singer

  Sex, Honesty, Unique

  Peter Singer (1993). “Practical Ethics”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you, her people, and in your families, churches, neighborhoods, communities - the institutions that foster and nourish values like concern for others and respect for the rule of law under God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Philosophy, Greatness, America

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

  Dalai Lama

  Honesty, Violence, Harm

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• For the rest of your life to be as meaningful as possible, engage in spiritual practice if you can. It is nothing more than acting out of concern for others. If you practice sincerely and with persistence, little by little, step by step you will gradually reorder your habits and attitudes so as to think less about your own narrow concerns and more about others' - and thereby find peace and happiness yourself.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Attitude

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