You can have the most wonderful motives for what you do, but if what you do harms other people, you're fooling yourself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.
As long as you're not hurting anybody else, as long as you're being kind to people and you're doing what you love, only good things can come of it.
It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.
I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.