Putting Yourself Above Others Quotes

#1. We make her paint her face and dance
If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us
If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man
While putting her down we pretend that she is above us

John Lennon

#2. Life without risks is not worth living.

Charles Lindbergh

#3. It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Robert Redford

#4. My love, I'd volunteer to live a thousand lives if I got to spend any part of them with you.

Debra Anastasia

#5. Just broke up with somebody. Well, it wasn't really a break up, it was a booty call I might have took too serious.

J. B. Smoove

#6. I think 'Magneto' is definitely an anti-hero. He's fighting for the right thing, but his methods are far too extreme. He's not above breaking the law, stretching the limits of what is moral and putting evil to work for good.

Cullen Bunn

#7. Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.

Pankaj Mishra

#8. The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Colin Powell

#9. The best way to defeat the totalitarian of hate is with an ideology of hope
an ideology of hate
excuse me
with an ideology of hope.

George W. Bush

#10. To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.

Terry Goodkind

#11. By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

Ron Fournier

#12. We need to take things personally. We need to stop putting profits above people. We need to stop putting greed above need. We need to stop putting the rule of gold above the golden rule. We need to treat people as people and not as problems.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#13. Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.

Suze Orman

#14. Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength
life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. She had shaved above the knee, packed her suitcase with her skimpiest lingerie, and the instructions on the Sexy Weekend Fun Box said, "Just Add Texan." What she had not expected was Hunter putting her on a Tex-free diet.

Kate Meader

#16. Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

Charles R. Swindoll

#17. I used to think it bordered on tragedy the way families lose touch, the way people sever ties, putting a pretty place to live above being together. But now I realize that's just how people like it. They don't always want to be together.

Paula Daly

#18. It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

William Samuel Johnson

#19. There are a lot of people who have a high IQ, but if they don't work hard, then their intelligence does them absolutely no good. Average people win by putting in an above-average effort.

Eric Laughton

#20. Because you are designed to want something that will hurt you. And you cannot help it ... cannot stop wanting it. It is in your design. And when you finally find it, this thing will burn you up. This thing will destroy you.

Daniel H. Wilson

#21. I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.

Paul Reiser

#22. Loving someone means putting their needs above your own. No matter what. Somehow, you figured that out. I'll be damned if I know how, but you did.

Amy Harmon

#23. ..people who stutter may be of above intellect but have trouble putting the many ideas they have into words in an easily understood order without stuttering on using some other form of place-holding mechanism.

Bill Allin

#24. We receive by faith and we keep it by faith.

Benny Hinn

#25. All I'm saying, Dad, is that I accept that I don't know. But I have faith that my Lord and Savior does, so I'm putting myself in His hands. Humbling myself to a wisdom that's above and beyond me and praying for His guidance.

Wally Lamb

#26. You have to be tough.

Mike Ditka

#27. Martha
I thought you loved her.
Bernard
Enough to want her happiness above all things.
Martha
You are forty-five, aren't you? I forgot that for a moment.
Bernard
Dear Martha. You have such an attractive way of putting things.

W. Somerset Maugham

#28. We are all warned to read labels. The salutary truth is that we shouldn't be eating anything that has a label on it!

T.C. Fry

#29. Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

Tom Peters

#30. These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.

Earl Nightingale

#31. Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

Periander

#32. Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.

Wendy Farley

#33. We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good - for putting a personal sense of doing right above any objective measure of the outcome. It's called 'moral vanity'.

Greg Egan