Doing For Others Quotes

Doing for others may be the only way to create lasting well-being.

Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.

What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, you’re doing for others, and what you do for others, you’re doing for yourself.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.

There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. We should feel a great sense of urgency because it is the most dangerous crisis we have ever faced, by far. But it also provides us with opportunities to do a lot of things we ought to be doing for other reasons anyway. And to solve this crisis we can develop a shared sense of moral purpose.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

You only need a heart full of grace

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

You have to know what you're doing and where you're going. For some guys, the answer is just keep doing what you're doing. For other guys, that might not be the case. It just depends on what kind you are.

The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity and not be driven by fear into a rigid, single-solution approach to problems, who are rational, foresightful and who look for facts; who can draw inferences and can control their behavior in the light of foreseen consequences, who are altruistic and enjoy doing for others, and who understand social forces and trends.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

What are you doing for others?

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.