Isaac Barrow Quotes

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

I'm not one to speak about myself. I like to speak about the people around me.

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

She's equally as gracious as someone who shares experiences with you as she is as a superior. What's so graceful about her is that no matter what, she's just Oprah.

you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.

It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.

Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves.

No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.

Our everyday cares, making a living, the crazy rat race of life, often make us forget the value of a good deed. Thus, the goodness that exists within each and every one of us is covered with layer upon layer of indifference and unawareness. In fact, we almost have to be reminded of the fact that goodness is there inside us.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

He gives twice who gives promptly.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

I believe people are wonderful. The vast majority of people have never hurt anybody in their lives.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.