“Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
"Elements of Success", as published in President Garfield and education: Hiram college memorial https://archive.org/details/presidentgarfiel00hinsuoft (1882), compiled by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 327
Jennifer Beals (1963) American actress and a former teen model
Global Health TV Interview at Women Deliver Conference (16 June 2010) http://www.globalhealthtv.com/news/v/jennifer_beals_attends_women_deliver_as_guest_of_united_nations_fund/to/latest_news/.
“Let me tell you, it’s easier to change yourself than everyone else.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
William Pfaff (1928–2015) American journalist
Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 52.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
"The Science to Save Us from Science," The New York Times Magazine (19 March 1950)
1950s
Context: All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
Statement on the Monica Lewinsky affair, at Rose Garden press conference http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/New/html/19980731-26849.html (July 31, 1998) <br class="br">1990s
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2