Needs Of Others Quotes - Page 2

• According to [the Bible], a leader is first and foremost a servant. His concern is not for himself; his concern is not to give orders, to boss other people around, to have his own way. His concern is to meet the needs of others.

  Wayne Mack

  Order, People, Giving

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• We each have a covenant responsibility to be sensitive to the needs of others and serve as the Savior did-to reach out, bless, and uplift those around us.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Uplifting, Responsibility, Needs

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• 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.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Needs, Care, Common

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• Being 'poor in spirit' (a Christian virtue) means being detached from things - being able to possess goods without being possessed by them. It meansputting people ahead of possessions - and seeing material things only as instruments for serving God and the needs of others.

  James Stenson

  Christian, Mean, People

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• By being inattentive to the needs of others, inevitably we end up harming them.

  Dalai Lama

  Needs, Ends

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• Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Women, Real, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.99, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Humanity, Mind, Needs

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• Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Teaching, Thinking

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat.

  Kofi Annan

  Mind, Needs, World

  YouTube Chanel "Skoll.org"/ "Kofi Annan: The World I'm Working To Create", www.youtube.com. August 12, 2013.

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• May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kindness, Helping Others, Compassion

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• When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Spiritual, Love Is, Giving

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• We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's just sort of in our DNA. And so portraiture is a very human act.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Dna, Needs

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to take notice of the needs of others and of situations involving those whom the Gospel tells us are our neighbours. The gaze of Jesus, what “his eyes” teach us, leads to human closeness, solidarity, giving time, sharing our gifts and even our material goods.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Eye, Giving

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting With Volunteer Associations in Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, w2.vatican.va. September 9, 2007.

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• We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being. Every day we confront issues relating to the needs and wants of others and must continually make accommodations. And in addressing these conflicting interests, the operative norm is - or should be - fairness, a balancing of the interests and needs of other parties, other 'stakeholders.'

  Peter Corning

  Party, Issues, Humanity

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• I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?

  Kij Johnson

  Dream, Lonely, Stars

  Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.57, Macmillan

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• We mask our needs as the needs of others.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Needs, Mask

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause us to prioritize our own needs over the needs of others, even though what we really want, in our hearts, is to be less selfish, more aware of what's actually happening in the present moment, more open, and more loving.

  George Saunders

  Selfish, Believe, Heart

  "George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates". George Saunders' Speech at Syracuse University for the class of 2013, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Rich people should not feel guilty, but we should feel responsible. We are called to be good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage.

  Andy Stanley

  Thinking, Generosity, Effort

  "Atlanta Megachurch Pastor Andy Stanley 'Uncomfortably Bold' on Confronting Christians About Wealth, Generosity". Interview with Ruth Malhotra, www.christianpost.com. January 2, 2014.

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• This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Lying, Past, Men

  "Solaris". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Chapter 6: "The Little Apocrypha", p. 72, 1970.

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• Feel the needs of others more than your own.

  Haile Selassie

  Needs, Feels

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• It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle.

  Judith Ortiz Cofer

  Space, Plot, Needs

  Judith Ortiz Cofer (2000). “Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer”, p.88, University of Georgia Press

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• The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another refueling - with shamatha or with other people's love and attention - because you know within yourself how to be free, how to be confident. With this sense of security and freedom, you begin to direct your attention to the needs of others. The compassion expands.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Compassion, Security And Freedom, People

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• Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Prayer, Thinking, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (1987). “A Lamp for My Feet: The Bible's Light for Daily Living”, Vine Books

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• A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness
  finds authority by being under authority
  finds direction by laying down his plans
  finds vision by seeing the needs of others
  finds credibility by being an example
  finds loyalty by expressing compassion
  finds honor by being faithful
  finds greatness by being a servant

  Roy Lessin

  Loyalty, Godly, Compassion

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• Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a burden that saps our energy as well as our love for God and other people...Like Jesus and Paul, we can learn to be content with what we have, living modestly in order that we may give liberally to the work of the kingdom and to meet the needs of others.

  John Wimber

  Christian, Jesus, Order

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