Top 100 What Others Say Quotes
#1. It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Audrey Hepburn
#3. I may have a general broad-based idea of what I want to write about when I sit down to write a book, but I don't have any idea of what it's going to say. I would call my experience of creativity 'inspired by God' to produce certain pieces of information that might be useful to others.
Neale Donald Walsch
#4. Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
John Galsworthy
#5. You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.
Francis Frangipane
#6. Stop saying yes out of fear about what others will think about you and say NO out of love for yourself!
Suze Orman
#7. I'm willing to be seen.
I'm willing to speak up.
I'm willing to keep going.
I'm willing to listen to what others have to say.
I'm willing to go to bed each night at peace with myself.
I'm willing to be my biggest bestest most powerful self.
Emma Watson
#8. Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.
Myles Munroe
#9. But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you ... . Do to others as you would have them do to you. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
Gary Chapman
#10. When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do. Even if others lie to you, it is okay. They are lying to you because they are afraid. They are afraid you will discover that they are not perfect.
Miguel Ruiz
#11. [The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what excites you excites others. Spend more time assuming people have good reasons for what they do or say and then figure out those good reasons.
John Daly
#12. You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.
Les Brown
#13. Listening: You can convey no greater honor than actually hearing what someone has to say.
Philip B. Crosby
#14. Dr. S. talked to me about magical thinking. She was right. Much depends on chance, on what we can't control, on others. She did not say that writing to Boris was a bad idea, but then she never judged anything. That was her magic. [p. 85]
Siri Hustvedt
#15. When you find complete acceptance in the Father, you will no longer stress about what others believe, think or say about you.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#16. Beware of those who speak ill of others in your presence; don't be surprised of what they say about you in your absence.
A.J. Garces
#17. People talk of their motives in a cut and dried way. Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. I am not a monster but I have not felt exactly what other women feel, or say they feel, for fear of being thought unlike others.
George Eliot
#18. Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.
Ally Condie
#19. What do others see when they look at your life? What do those who know you best say about you - your spouse, your children, your friends, your coworkers? Do they see inconsistencies in any area of your life - money, relationships, speech, possessions?
Billy Graham
#20. Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects
Rene Descartes
#21. Excellent,' said one of the Sanzas. "Soon he'll be fat, and we can butcher him like all the others for a Penance Day roast."
"What my brother means to say," said the other twin, "is that all the others died of purely natural causes, and you have nothing to fear from us. Now have some more bread.
Scott Lynch
#22. When we're on the "me" plan, what others say about us has great power. A friend tells us we look good - our mind soars. A colleague tells us we're not pulling our weight at work - our mind sinks.
Sakyong Mipham
#23. The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.
Deborah Tannen
#24. Some people say I'm a no count, others say I'm no goodBut I'm just a natural born travelin' manDoin' what I think I should, oh yeahDoin' what I think I should.
Hoyt Axton
#25. Always listen to what others has to say, but at last you are the one who should decide.
Santosh Kalwar
#26. What's insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they'd say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us
Jeff Jarvis
#27. Until you can say what is most difficult for you to say, you cannot speak from your heart, live unafraid, create health, or receive support from others.
Gary Zukav
#28. What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love ... They're the guiding lights of a life.
Jimmy Carter
#29. When we live life centered around what others like, feel, and say, we lose touch with our own identity. I am an eternal being, created by God. I am an individual with purpose. It's not what I get from life, but who I am, that makes the difference.
Neva Coyle
#30. People residing within the cult of average don't like to see others rise. It threatens their security, and spotlights their low self-worth. Go for great, no matter what they say.
Robin Sharma
#31. PROCTOR
he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!
Arthur Miller
#32. The moment you say, "We are proud. I'm proud to be this, and I'm proud to be that," what you're saying is we're almost as good as the others. "Almost" always means not quite.
Harry Hay
#33. You will never be fully resigned to the will of God if you are troubled by human opinion of you, or if you make for yourself a little idol of what people say.
Michael Molinos
#34. To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-- or both.
Elizabeth Charles
#35. In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.
Nicolas Bouvier
#36. You don't have to fight every battle. You don't have to respond to every critic. You don't have to be offended because of what others say. You can rise above these things and soar.
Joel Osteen
#37. Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.
Alice Clayton
#38. What if I say I'm not like the others
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender
Foo Fighters
#39. I do. I choose you,
which is to choose him and the others and to say
Everything I was ever told of love
was so simple as to be untrue.
Let me see for myself what you desire beside me.
Let me look it in the face and kiss him.
Jameson Fitzpatrick
#40. Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.
Alfred Doblin
#41. We ain't anything more than a name and some likes and some distastes, and a story we tell about ourselves.'
And what others say about us.
M T Anderson
#42. What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
Elbert Hubbard
#43. I'd say most of my songs I write from personal experience. When I feel like I don't have any inspiration in my personal life, I think about others that are close to me and maybe what they're going through or even just people I've come across, acquaintances.
Tess Henley
#44. Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent ... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.
John G. Diefenbaker
#45. Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.
Alain De Botton
#46. Whoever is capable of not minding what others say, is a man on the path to wisdom
Paulo Coelho
#47. feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#48. I used to listen to what others said, and expect them to act accordingly. But nowadays, I listen to what they say, and then observe what they do.
Confucius
#49. I think it's really important not to be so judgmental and not to be so fearful. Try to have confidence in yourself. Don't depend so much on what others say about you or want you to be.
Deepa Mehta
#50. What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.
William John Wills
#51. We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, God, what a nut.
Lawrence Lessig
#52. I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
#53. You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves.
Elie Wiesel
#54. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Miguel Ruiz
#55. What does Yagwavalkya say?
'It is not our hermitage,' he says - our religion ,we might say - 'still less the colour of our skin, that produces virtue ; virtue must be practised. Therefore let no one do to others what he would not have done to himself.
Friedrich Max Muller
#56. You are who you are because others say that's who you are. You can try to change who you are but it will only change the views of others who think you are what you really aren't.
Anonymous
#57. What's with what you're wearing?" Griggs asks while we stand outside waiting for the others.
"It's pretty hideous, isn't it?" I say.
"Don't force me to look at it," he says. "It's see-through."
That kills conversation for a couple of seconds.
Melina Marchetta
#58. What I am, it is useless to say - those whom it concerns feel and find it out. To all others I wish only to be an obscure, steady-going private character.
Charlotte Bronte
#59. That's the role of poetry, Ciri. To say what others cannot utter.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#60. I've always believed a man is what he does, not what others say.
Renee Ahdieh
#61. Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say. However, when you conclude you were in error, do not hesitate to announce the error publicly and change course.
Ed Koch
#62. Some say Twitter is overrated.
Some love it, others hate it.
I guess it depends on what you've got,
If you have guts to write a funny plot!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#63. With ADD, you're curious. You're eyes believe what they see. Your ears believe what others say. I learned to trust my eyes.
Paul Orfalea
#64. What others say and do cannot stop you from fulfilling your destiny. Your destiny was handed down by Almighty God.
Joel Osteen
#65. Words Matter
What people write and say affects others. Don't believe me? Consider these examples.
--Jihadists persuade everyday people to strap explosives to themselves and wreak havoc in public places.
--Words start wars and end marriages.
Words matter.
Fedora Amis
#66. I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#67. The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
#68. The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.
Martha Beck
#69. The next time you get nervous about others opinions, look them mentally in the eye and say, "What you think of me is none of my business."
Terry Cole-Whittaker
#70. Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.
Terry Goodkind
#71. The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#72. What people say about others' behavior or character is not always true, Just Proffer it to your best judgement.
Mohith Agadi
#73. What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The Buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them.
Shantideva
#74. Believe in what you can do and be not deterred by what others say.
Jacob Gelt Dekker
#75. I am my own person caoable of making my own decisions and choosing powerfully how i live. I appreciate and respect what others have to say but ultimately I choose how I live my life.
Miranda Kerr
#76. The rules from those who are politically correct restrict what you can say to or about anything in our daily life. They tell you what to call others and what others can call you.
John Patrick Hickey
#77. I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
Edward Gorey
#78. For many of us, the opposite of talking isn't listening. It's waiting. When others speak, we typically divide our attention between what they're saying now and what we're going to say next - and end up doing a mediocre job at both.
Daniel H. Pink
#80. We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others
Harry Truman
#81. He loves me without having to say it. He cherishes me without having to prove it. When he touches me I know what he's thinking, how he truly feels beneath that mask he wears in the face of others. I'm the only soul he's ever let into his life completely. And the only one he'll never let go.
J.A. Redmerski
#82. I don't want to hear any drama [about me]. I don't want any negativity. I don't want to hear what's on the blog. I don't care what others say about me.
Nicki Minaj
#83. We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us. But if we change what we are saying or doing, they may respond differently.
Nabil N. Jamal
#84. Frankly, I don't care what others say.
Niall Horan
#85. Judgment is harsh and mean and meant to hurt, as if the pain of what we do or say will slap others into our way of believing.
Iyanla Vanzant
#86. I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.
Stephen Hawking
#87. If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?
Chuck Schumer
#88. People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.
Laura Schlessinger
#89. Nobody gets to say who we love, or who we lay down beside, or take as our husband, lover, life, or bride. Nobody gets to decide what's for some, that others should hide. Pride. Nobody gets to choose but YOU.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
#90. It was then that I knew. Without a doubt in my mind, without worry of what others would think, and having no fear of mistakes or consequences, I smiled at the words I would say.
Jamie McGuire
#91. To all you dreamers out there ... reach for the stars. Do what others say is impossible ... live your dream!
Timothy Pina
#92. We of course will say we claim sovereignty of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district. Others will come, and they will say we claim sovereignty. What can be the outcome?
Menachem Begin
#93. For I make others say what I cannot say so well, ... I do not count my borrowings, but, weight them ... They are all, or very nearly all, from such famous and ancient names that they seem to identify themselves enough without me.
Michel De Montaigne
#94. To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.
Albert Einstein
#95. What can I say to get others involved around the table? How can I draw them in?
John C. Maxwell
#96. You don't care what others think - which might be understandable. But you don't care even to make them think as you do?"
"No."
"But that's ... that's monstrous."
"Is it? Probably. I couldn't say.
Ayn Rand
#97. The world tells us that our pasts define us, trapping us, isolating us and giving us little hope for change or betterment. I say our pasts design us for what's to come and gives us a platform to be heroes in the lives of others.
Shawn M Mcnamara
#98. Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.
Katherine Anne Porter
#99. I will speak only those things that I want to see in my life and the life of others. Whatever I speak into the lives of others will come back to me therefore I choose to be careful with what I say.
Charlene Brown
#100. While what you say to others is important, even more important is what you say to yourself.
Robin S. Sharma
