dont look out for yourself, look out for others

Hi reader, you have really clicked an educative link from DOSKEY.  Is your favorite letter “I”? listen: The cause of most of our problems is “ I” to “you”. The truth is, no one makes it on their own. George Adams said, “Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has encountered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.”

Wesley Huber said, “there is nothing quite so dead as a self centered man- a man who holds himself up as a self-made success,  and measures himself by himself and is pleased with the result.” Don’t become a legend in your own mind.  Norman Vincent Peale observed, “The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, power or position he is still a failure,” conceit makes us fools. The book of Proverbs reminds us, “Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.”

The man who believes in nothing but himself lives in a very small world. The best way to be happy is to forget yourself and focus on other people. Henry Courtney said, ”the bigger a man’s head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes.” The only reason pride lifts you up is nothing but to let you down. A swelled head always proves there is plenty of room for improvement. “The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person” (Alexander pope). Egotism is the only disease where the patient feels well while making everyone else around him feel sick, It blossoms but bears no fruit.

When you find yourself on a high horse, the best thing to do is to dismount at once. You can’t push yourself forward by patting yourself on the back. Burton Hillis remarked, “its fine to believe in ourselves , but we mustn’t be too easily convinced.” An egoist is his own best friend. I think that people who are deeply in love with themselves should get a divorce. The man who only works by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

I have observed that those who boast of being self-made usually have a few parts missing. You can recognize a self-made man; his head is oversized and his arms are high enough to part himself on the back. A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he has already “arrived” the higher you go in life, the more dependent you become on other people.

Work together with others. Remember the banana: every time it leaves the bunch it gets peeled and eaten. Freckles would make a nice tan, if you would just get together. Few burdens are heavy when everyone lifts.