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A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Related topics: Values Compassion
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him,
that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men,
and when he devotes himself helpfully
to all life that is in need of help.
- Albert Schweitzer
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root,
can only attain its full breadth and depth
if it embraces all living creatures
and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
Let me give you a definition of ethics:
It is good to maintain and further life
it is bad to damage and destroy life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure
the inner perfection of his own personality.
- Albert Schweitzer
I can do no other than be reverent
before everything that is called life.
I can do no other than to have compassion
for all that is called life.
That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
- Albert Schweitzer
I do not believe in immortality of the individual,
and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern
with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
There is a magnet in your heart
that will attract true friends.
That magnet is unselfishness,
thinking of others first;
when you learn to live for others,
they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Lovers who have been left, lose confidence and become afraid.
They learn to leave relationships first.
The broken hearted become the heart breakers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
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Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
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A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.
Then, of course, you spoke.
- the movie As Good As It Gets (1997)
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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