If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
—Henry Ford
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.
—Immanuel Kant
The more a person is satisfied with himself, the less there is about him to be satisfied with.
—Leo Tolstoy
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
—Michelangelo
When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
—Seneca
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Accept everything bad that happens to you the way a sick person takes medicine. Medicines are bitter & distasteful, but a sick person takes it happily & is glad it exists. In the same way, be glad when trials & afflictions are sent to you, knowing that they’re of use to your soul
—Leo Tolstoy
They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice… That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.
—Søren Kierkegaard
For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
—Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
—Thomas Jefferson
One day people will stop fighting, waging war, executing people, and will begin to love one another. This day cannot be evaded, for within every person’s soul lies love, not hatred, toward others. Let’s do all we can to reach this day more quickly.
—Leo Tolstoy
The scope of one’s personality is defined by the magnitude of that problem which is capable of driving a person out of his wits.
—Sigmund Freud
There is no more visible sign of a person’s success on the path of goodness than when he restrains his anger and refuses to repay an unkind word with an unkind word, or refuses to strike back at a person who’s offended him.
—Leo Tolstoy
The more compassion there is in a person the better and happier his life is.
—Leo Tolstoy
There’s no reason to pity a person if he dies or loses his money, if he has no home or property, because none of those things belong to man. But there’s reason for pity if a person loses his one true possession, his highest blessing: his ability to love.
—Leo Tolstoy
A person is never closer to God than when he’s in trouble.
—Leo Tolstoy
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
—Plato
Many persons are misled by the favourable opinions entertained of them by others; many, it is to be feared, mistake a hot zeal for orthodoxy, for a cordial acceptance of the great truths of the gospel.
—William Wilberforce
When Christ died, the ransom was prepared, the sum laid down; but yet the elect continue still in sin and misery, until, by effectual calling it be actually applied to their persons, and then they are made free, reconciled by Christ’s death, by whom we have now rec’d atonement.
—John Flavel
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
—Aristotle
A good and wise person can be recognized by the fact that he considers others better and wiser than he is.
—Leo Tolstoy
Be kind.
Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
—Plato
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
—Plato
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture.
At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
—Plato
Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe that he has done some good to us, or at least that he has had the intention of doing so.
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
—Immanuel Kant