On Behalf Of Others Quotes

#1. Often the hardest person to fight for is ... yourself. But you must. Your heart is needed. You must be present and engaged in order to love well and fight on behalf of others. Without you, much will be lost." Chapter 11 "Warrior Princess

Stasi Eldredge

#2. People choose, he said, people choose, and they choose on behalf of others.

Teju Cole

#3. It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#4. Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

Richard J. Foster

#5. To be fully in service to something one has experienced as real is the essence of leadership in a nonhierarchical age. A leader is the holder of a story, someone whose experience of its reality is deep enough so that she can hold the belief on behalf of others.

Charles Eisenstein

#6. Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used
not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#7. Maturity is the ability to see and act on behalf of others. Immature people don't see things from someone else's point of view. They rarely concern themselves with what's best for others. In many ways, they act like small children.

John C. Maxwell

#8. It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

John Eldredge

#9. What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy.

George F. R. Ellis

#10. Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer.

Monica Johnson

#11. We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

A.B. Simpson

#12. Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Bill Gates

#13. The longer we stay in a violating situation, the more traumatized we become. If we don't act on our own behalf, we will lose spirit, resourcefulness, energy, health, perspective, and resilience. We must take ourselves out of violating situations for the sake of our own wholeness.

Anne Katherine

#14. We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

George W. Bush

#15. When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.

Theodore Roosevelt

#16. I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and lusts after them.

Alex Pettyfer

#17. And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every time I did something wrong, but come on, when you live in a sin-free family with sin-free parents and a sin-free sister, well, you can't help but sin a little extra on their behalf.

Han Nolan

#18. We are ambassadors for Christ; certain that God is appealing through us, we plead on Christ's behalf: "Be reconciled to God." 2 Corinthians 5:20

Beth Moore

#19. {21:2} "Question the Lord on our behalf, for Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, is fighting against us.

The Biblescript

#20. I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition.

John Lennon

#21. The bond was so strange at times. Jill was jealous on Adrian's behalf.

Richelle Mead

#22. When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

S. Ansky

#23. God is working on your behalf today. Heaven is holding conversations about you. Angels have been assigned to you. Just breathe and be at peace.

Unknown

#24. On behalf of the entire Lionsgate team, it is a tremendous honor and deeply humbling to join the elite group of recipients previously honored with the Milestone Award.

Jon Feltheimer

#25. People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

George Eliot

#26. I do good in the world - at least I try to. I speak on behalf of women, and I know I have made the lives of women happier as a result of teaching them what I have learned relative to true health rather than disease care.

Suzanne Somers

#27. I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.

Newt Gingrich

#28. All we have to do is ask and believe that God will work on our behalf and give us what we need to overcome and rise above the adversities and stress that we are facing.

Tracie Miles

#29. Everything we personally own that's made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we're either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

Yvon Chouinard

#30. I write better in Cape Breton ... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.

Farley Mowat

#31. We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months.

DeForest Soaries

#32. There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.

Tullian Tchividjian

#33. Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#34. It was becoming difficult to separate her own decisions from those made by others, for her, on behalf of themselves.

Chris Pavone

#35. Some land surveyors delve into land development advocacy, working with local government on behalf of clients in order to facilitate progress on a project. Others stick to strictly surveying. The approach depends on the individual firm and the needs of the local area.

Mark Mason

#36. The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.

Louis MacNeice

#37. However, there is also a ministry called the prayer closet. Humble servants, burdened with the cares of others, intercede on their behalf. This service offered up by uncelebrated prayer warriors is a mighty weapon. They call upon the power of God to thwart the schemes of the evil one.

Cheryl Zelenka

#38. My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#39. Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#40. A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

David Simon

#41. Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

Margaret George

#42. The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered.

Jenny Shipley

#43. Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

Joanna Macy

#44. It doesn't matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#45. When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

Clara Zetkin

#46. As the leader of the nation, I say in behalf of the Filipino people to the world: we are strong and principled believers in democracy.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#47. He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice.

Victor Serge

#48. The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

June Jordan

#49. You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

Herb Kelleher

#50. Capitalism , as Marx defined it, is a system in which productive wealth is privately owned. Communism (which Marx proposed as an alternative) is one in which productive wealth is owned by the community, or by the nation on behalf of the people.

Richard Heinberg

#51. It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.

Benjamin Hoadly

#52. She lifted her head. "It's easier," she said, slowly, "to be angry on someone else's behalf than on my own. And yet I find I have a well of anger in me, that I have been filling for years from my own hurts. If I spill it out in defense of another, I can deny it's mine.

Emma Bull

#53. I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.

Ron Davies

#54. While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such. The media by themselves do not make the decisions, but on behalf of themselves and larger interests they certify what is or is not on the nation's agenda.

Fred W. Friendly

#55. At their most eloquent, proponents of neoliberalism sound as if they are doing poor people, the environment, and everybody else a tremendous service as they enact policies on behalf of the wealthy few. The

Noam Chomsky

#56. If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.

Charles Kettering

#57. We have to hear again and again who God is for us and what God has done on our behalf. We must free each other from bondage through our confession and forgiveness.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#58. Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

W. H. Auden

#59. Let's not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let's pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who do not pray. Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!

Mother Teresa

#60. There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington.

Leo Hindery

#61. Apology calls for a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the wronged party and the inherent value of the relationship, not for what it brings to you but for what you can bring to it.

John Kador

#62. Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.

Steve Erickson

#63. I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection ... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two.

Robert Browning

#64. It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts of the world. And even this is true for even Brother Barack Obama.

Cornel West

#65. To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.

Leonard Ravenhill

#66. Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

William James

#67. I've been doing this 17 years but I can tell you I have more websites now than I have ever had devoted to me or my past career or my character. When I got this show, I think I had two fans out there that had created websites on my behalf.

Robert Patrick

#68. I don't think anyone has campaigned much more than I have for Republican candidates, going back to 1998. I mean, I've been in 45 states on behalf of 200 candidates - all Republicans.

Rudy Giuliani

#69. I have no worries myself, nor do I exude or possess within my living stratus any reason why someone should worry [on] my behalf.

Lark Voorhies

#70. Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#71. Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.

John McCarthy

#72. I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.

Sam Yagan

#73. Those who labor unselfishly in behalf of others, with no thought of remuneration, will be physically and spiritually refreshed and renewed.

David B. Haight

#74. The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

Ralph Nader

#75. Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.

Kevin Plank

#76. Like us, animals feel love, joy, fear and pain, but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to speak on their behalf ensuring their well-being and lives are respected and protected.

Sylvia Dolson