Do For Others Quotes

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

We only have what we give.

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

The quickest way to forget about your pain is to help someone who hurts more.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

You are not a true success unless you are helping others be successful.

Freely we serve, because freely we love.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.

Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.

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

Before you ever receive the wonderful treasures of a happy life, you must first give. Give of yourself. Be of service to others. Only what you give can be multiplied back into your own life.

WHAT A TIRING WAY TO LIVE, WHEN YOUR SELF-WORTH IS CONSTANTLY RELYING ON THE AFFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF OTHERS.

The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.

Your rewards will be determined by the extent of your contribution, that is your service to others.

Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others

Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

When you do your best and live out your dreams, you inspire others to do the same.

By teaching others you will learn yourself.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God

It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle.

Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.

Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth.

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others.