Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879) British poet and hymn-writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 251.
Source: Choke
Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879) British poet and hymn-writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 251.
Ron Reagan (1958) talk radio host and political analyst
On the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse, New York Times (27 June 2004).
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=EcKZ8bbMLDMC&q=%22It+is+not+fair+to+ask+of+others+what+you+are+not+willing+to+do+yourself%22&pg=PA64#v=onepage
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1946&_f=md000366
15 June 1946
My Day (1935–1962)
Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman
Variant: Ask yourself three questions and you will know who you are. Ask 'What do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask what do you love?
Source: The Bronze Horseman (2001)
Howard Thurman (1899–1981) American writer
As quoted in Violence Unveiled (1996) by Gil Bailie, p. xv
Variant: Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Source: The Living Wisdom of Howard Thurman: A Visionary for Our Time
“Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?”
Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“What would Jesus, or any human being who isn't an asshole, do?”
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Book III, ch. 23.
Discourses
“You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on."
Homer Simpson”
Matt Groening (1954) American cartoonist
Abraham Kaplan (1918–1993) American philosopher
Source: "The Conduct of Inquiry", p. 43.