A hurting person needs a helping hand, not an accusing finger.
A word of encouragement offered at the right moment can be the difference between finishing well and collapsing along the way.
Accept, listen to, and respect others.
All work with people should be based on prayer; a little prayer before we speak or try to help another will make us more effective.
Avoid quarrelling.
Be kind to everyone.
Be sensitive to others need for encouragement and offer supportive words or actions.
Before we accuse others, we must first look at ourselves.
Before we criticize anyone, we should walk a mile in their shoes, that way, when we criticize them, we are a mile away from them in their shoes.
Before we flare up at another's faults, why not take time to count to ten; ten of our own.
Build another up.
Caring for others causes them to care for others.
Comfort those who are frightened; take tender care of those who are weak and be patient with everyone.
Constant thoughts running through our minds represent a form of talking; we can't listen to another person while we are still talking.
Different people require different treatment; be sensitive to the needs of those around us and the special treatment they need.
Don't look down on another person unless you are bending over to help him or her.
Don't take advantage of others.
Effectiveness in helping others depends on controlling ourselves.
Empathy is the ability to say to one's self, if I were this person in precisely this same situation, I'd feel exactly as he or she does.
Encouragement can change a person's life.
Even if we do not start a false rumor or initiate a lie, we become responsible if we pass it along; to participate in these activities is to participate in a lie.
Even if we don't have material wealth, we can be rich in good works toward others; no matter how poor we are, we all have something to share with others.
Even the most successful person needs the care of others.
Everything we do affects others, and we have to think of them constantly.
Gratitude is more than just being grateful; it carries the principle of moral responsibility to help others.
Help the rejected and feel accepted.
I may know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
If someone you know is in difficulties and a call would help, go pick your phone now, later may be too late.
If we feel we must admonish someone, we should be sure we are confronting that person because we love him or her, not because we are annoyed, inconvenienced, or seeking to blame them.
If we have done something wrong, perhaps we should go beyond what is expected to make things right; this will 1)help ease any pain we've caused, 2)help the other person be more forgiving, and 3)make us more likely not to repeat our mistake.
If we want someone to act a certain way, we must be sure that we live that way ourselves, then we will earn the right to be heard.
If we have something to say to others by way of suggestion, correction or reprimand, we should try to say it with love.
If we must deal in criticism, we should confine our practice of self-criticism.
It is not for us to change our brother or sister but merely to accept him or her as is.
It may be important at times to point out someone's shortcomings, but before we have the right to do this, we must build that
person's trust through encouragement.
Lashing out at others can be a sign that something is wrong in our heart.
Let others know you appreciate them.
Let us be sure that we are doing our very best, for then we will have the personal satisfaction of work well done and won't need to compare ourselves with others.
Let us not be guilty of criticism unless we can offer a solution.
Let us outdo each other in being helpful and kind to each other and in doing good.
Let us share and not brag: sharing is from the heart to help another, bragging is from the head to build us up.
Make others feel accepted, be sensible to their needs and concerns.
No matter how right we think we are, we must always be careful to stop and listen to what others have to say.
No one can really know what anyone else is thinking, or what he or she is really like, except that person.
One of the greatest gifts we can give others is to simply be with them, to give them our undivided attention.
Others cannot know we appreciate them if we do not tell them they are important to us.
Paying restitution builds bridges with others and establishes peace within ourselves.
Practice patience.
Quarreling, harsh words, and dislike of others should have no place in our lives.
Rather than compound an error through defensiveness, we should seek forgiveness and reconciliation as soon as we realize our mistake.
Resist revenge.
Service to others is all we have to offer in this life.
Some need compassion more then advice.
Sometimes our friends make choices that we know are wrong; if we ignore their behavior and let them continue, we aren't showing love to them.
Tactful persuasion accomplishes a great deal more than commands when dealing with people.
Tenderly love the weak.
The deception of others is nearly always rooted in the deception of ourselves.
The better we know ourselves, the less we'll critcize others.
The best way to get even with someone who has harmed you is to forgive them.
The greatest gift we can give another is hope.
The key to happiness is not to concentrate on ourselves, but to lose ourselves in others.
The more light we generate for others, the better we can see ourselves.
The more we fill our minds with concern for others, the less room is left to be concerned for ourselves.
The more we try to control another person, the more we'll under that person's control.
The technique of forgiveness is quite simple; the only essential is our willingness to forgive.
The way to really feel comfortable with ourselves is to take an interest in others.
To forgive ourselves, we must forgive others.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
To take is to lose; to do harm is to receive harm.
Today, let us learn from everyone we meet.
True forgiveness means we treat the one we've forgiven as we would want to be treated.
Valuing people involves listening, understanding, and meeting their needs.
We are not mature until we realize how much we need others.
We are obligated, by compassion and a common humanity, to help others; but this does not mean we should do for them what they ought to do for themselves.
We are the only person who can share our experience, strength and hope with others.
We can do something about changing our thoughts but nothing about
changing the people around us.
We can harm others by our attitudes as well as our actions.
We can improve our circumstances in life without demanding radical changes in the people close to us.
We can never make another feel better by criticism.
We can seek to build relationships by sharing, communicating, and caring.
We cannot accurately judge the lives of others.
We cannot hurt others without hurting ourselves.
We can't count on anyone changing but ourselves.
We can't effectively help until we know the problem.
We help ourselves by trying to help others.
We may not be able to stop people from attacking us, but we can at least we can stop supplying them with ammunition.
We must stop lying to ourselves and others for when we lie we hurt ourselves and others.
We must treat all people as we want to be treated.
We mustn't think only of ourselves, we should try to think of the other fellow or gal, too and what is best for him or her.
We need to encourage and warm each other.
We need to make things right with those we hurt.
We need to view all people as spiritual beings.
We seldom know what burdens another person has to bear.
We should always be kind to others.
We should be quick to judge ourselves but slow to judge others.
We should exhibit courtesy and respect in dealing with people.
We should help others because it is right, moral, and ethical, regardless of whether we will benefit personally.
We should make a point of seeking out and appreciating people who are not like us and our friends; we may find that we and they have a lot in common.
We should only say what is good and helpful to those we are talking to.
We should try to think of others as we would have them think of us.
We shouldn't grumble about each other, are we ourselves above criticism.
We shouldn't let a day pass without reaching out an arm of love to someone to try to do something to lift another.
We shouldn't say anything behind a person's back that we wouldn't to his or her face.
We would all care less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
What matters to us, truly, is not people or things or conditions in themselves, but the thoughts and beliefs that we hold concerning them.
When giving advice, avoid empty words and stock answers; it is more important to convey care and support than to worry about saying the right thing.
When we are feeling sorry for ourselves, it is time to get busy and start helping somebody else; soon.
When we are interested in others, we divert our minds from self- centeredness.
When we attempt to enjoy intimacy with someone else before developing an intimate relationship with ourselves, we put the cart before the horse.
When we don't move to help others, we show we are more concerned about what will happen to us than what will happen to them.
When we focus on others rather than on ourselves, we rarely suffer from low self-esteem.
When we give to those in need, there is not only benefit to the receiver, but we are benefited as well.
When we judge someone, we automatically consider ourselves better, and this is pride.
When we serve others, we really are serving ourselves.
When we stand in judgment, the person most harshly judged is ourselves.
When we talk too much and listen to little, we communicate to others that we think our ideas are much more important then theirs.