Top 100 Another's Quotes
#1. Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. In taking up another's cross, one must sometimes get crushed by the weight.
Paul Kalanithi
#3. One smile upon your face can save another's day from waste.
Patty Smith
#4. The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later age think a woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from another's.
Hannah Woolley
#5. The call to protect life - and not merely life but another's identity; it is perhaps not too much to say another's soul - was obvious in its sacredness.
Paul Kalanithi
#6. We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.
Michel De Montaigne
#7. Those corrupted by the pursuit of power, despite another's attempt at unspoiled love, cannot be rescued from the darkness that devours the soul
Christy Hall
#8. These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
John Milton
#9. Alas! it is a fearful thing
To feel another's guilt!
Oscar Wilde
#10. The gospel of Jesus Christ is all about people. It's about leaving the ninety and nine and going into the wilderness after those who are lost. It's about bearing one another's burdens, with the ultimate burden anyone can bear being walking through this life without light.
Sheri L. Dew
#11. One must always forgive another's passion.
Pat Conroy
#12. Perhaps a supreme form of charity may be exhibited by one who withholds judgment of another's acts or conduct, remembering that there is only one who can look into the heart and know the intent-and know the honest desires found therein.
H. Burke Peterson
#13. Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#14. Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.
Agnes Repplier
#15. No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#16. It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?
Lady Hester Stanhope
#17. Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?
James Clavell
#18. The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
Jacques Barzun
#20. Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.
Celia Green
#21. Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.
Neil Kurshan
#22. Public awareness is the equinox of tyranny's rise; once one man learns of another's captivity, he will act to free him. It is the best and most certain part of man's nature.
John Kramer
#23. Our misconception is in imagining that our suffering or how intensely or how long we grieve is a measure of how much we loved. In truth, none of us would want another's grief as a testimonial of their love for us. More likely we would want our loved ones to live healthy, fulfilled lives without us.
Judy Tatelbaum
#25. Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
Lucretius
#26. Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another's sex life.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#27. To fully understand another's views, you have to imagine yourself in their shoes.
Jonathan G. Meyer
#29. It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another's value. It is easier to define yourself as 'not that,' rather than do an actual accounting of your own qualities and put them on the scale.
Jessa Crispin
#30. In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each
is serving the others, seeking one another's good,
and bearing one another's burdens.
Henry Ward Beecher
#31. One's own form of sensibility is not not necessarily another's. Common sense is not so common.
Gillian Duce
#32. While we must learn from good examples and keep always in mind the bigger goal, we must compare ourselves only with ourselves. We can't focus or base our happiness on another's progress; we can focus only on our own.
Stephen R. Covey
#33. Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand?
Juliette Binoche
#34. The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey
#35. Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.
Ryan Miller
#36. Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.
Sean O'Casey
#37. I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.
John Gay
#38. Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift.
Neale Donald Walsch
#39. I think one's person's unlikeable is another's lovable.
Tom Barbash
#40. Difficult as it often is to grasp someone else's pain, it is easy to judge another's behavior.
Marcia Falk
#41. One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.
Henry Rollins
#42. One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.
Petrarch
#44. No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Graham Greene
#45. And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future.
Max Lucado
#46. People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.
Henry Reed
#47. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
John Updike
#48. There is no greater sorrow than to know another's secret when you cannot help them.
Anton Chekhov
#50. The man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
Aristotle.
#51. He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.
Benjamin Franklin
#52. If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
Honore De Balzac
#53. Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
Mason Cooley
#54. Studying chimps, I came to the conclusion that being evil is something that only humans are capable of. A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out. The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.
Jane Goodall
#55. There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
Ethel Merman
#56. How selfish and dark it was to count my blessings based on another's hell
Mercy Cortez
#57. I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
Alex Flinn
#58. Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
Salman Rushdie
#59. The girl was in fact so patient with the old lady that she had not yet noticed that she was never given an opportunity to be patient. She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.
Charles Williams
#60. Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.
Hesiod
#61. Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.
Sue Monk Kidd
#62. Fundamentally it is only our own basic thoughts that possess truth and life, for only these do we really understand through and through. The thoughts of another that we have read are crumbs from another's table, the cast-off clothes of an unfamiliar guest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#63. How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.
Tom Robbins
#64. That is the way a summer rain can take hold in you- like a new heart, beating in time with another's.
Muriel Barbery
#65. It was a placing of his destiny in another's hands, a shifting of the responsibilities of existence. This in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone.
Jack London
#66. You may be right, dead right, as you speed along in your argument; but as far as changing another's mind is concerned, you will probably be just as futile as if you were wrong.
Dale Carnegie
#67. To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
Tryon Edwards
#68. It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#71. Apples to oranges, the act of comparing your life to another's is more like comparing an elephant to an apple, it makes no sense to compare someone's life that you have no knowledge about to that of your own, of which in all earnest is not something that you completely understand yourself.
Forrest Curran
#72. He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.
Quintus Ennius
#73. Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another.
Frank Pittman
#74. Visit me before I die. We can enjoy one another's company. A funeral is a rather one-sided affair.
Ralph Webster
#75. Lesson learned: One person's success can be perceived as another's loss. Productivity is more important to some people than others. Those same people for whom productivity is not so important are often green-eyed with envy when someone else makes money. The
Douglas Wallace
#76. At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through the eyes that all-consuming regard which ignores everybody else on earth.
Laurie Lee
#77. It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.
Plato
#78. But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love
the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen.
Joyce Carol Oates
#79. Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.
Wes Fesler
#80. Those pissing contests are how lords judge one another's strength, and woe to any man who shows his weakness. A woman must needs piss twice as hard, if she hopes to rule. And
George R R Martin
#81. One would expect writers and artists to understand one another better than anyone else and to be more appreciative of one another's works. That, sadly, is not always the case. Writers rarely say anything positive about each other.
Elif Shafak
#82. We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
Irving Layton
#83. It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.
Sathya Sai Baba
#84. It was strange learning the contours of another's loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges.
Brit Bennett
#86. When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.
William Butler Yeats
#87. One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen
#88. The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good.
Mary Baker Eddy
#89. Pain, suffering, and death are natural conditions of the human existence. One person's pain is not and cannot be more important than another's.
Megan Thomason
#90. A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
Jean De La Bruyere
#91. Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#92. Each time I discovered a potential link between one character's story and another's, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself.
Richard Scarsbrook
#93. That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.
Ramona Koval
#94. What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.
Sathya Sai Baba
#95. The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#96. Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.
C.S. Lewis
#97. Taking in another's criticism, even when it's offered out of love, requires courage.
Sharon Salzberg
#98. O, what a precious comfort 'tis, to have so many, like brothers, commanding one another's fortunes!
William Shakespeare
#99. Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
William Penn
#100. I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.
Sharon Bolton
