Demand Quote by Andre Gide

The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

— Confucius

A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.

— Confucius

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

— Confucius

The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

— Confucius

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the…

— Walter Scott

He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity

— Confucius

The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.

— Anonymous

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

— Thomas a Kempis

And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

— Horace

He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.

— Aesop

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those…

— Niccolo Machiavelli