Doing For Others Quotes

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

Edward Everett

Life, Responsibility, Oneness

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

John Bunyan

Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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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.

John Wesley

Life, Motivational, Christmas

'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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

John Quincy Adams

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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You only need a heart full of grace

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Heart, Greatness, Helping Others

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.222, Beacon Press

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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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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What are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kings, Helping Others, Volunteer

Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Heart, Helping Others, Greatness

"The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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

Dick Gregory

Happiness, Helping Others, People

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

College, Helping Others, Greatness

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

Edmund Burke

Life, Courage, Time

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Encouragement, Freedom, Business

"The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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

Albert Pike

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Albert Pike (1899). “Ex Corde Locutiones...: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren...”

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

John Wesley

Christian, Kindness, Mean

'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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

Bo Burnham

Bible, Jesus, Kindness

Song: Haikus Sonnet Shakespeare, Album: Words Words Words, 2010

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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Horace Mann

Compassion, Helping Others, Help And Support

"Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.

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

George Eliot

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Pearl S. Buck

Happiness, Beautiful, Heart

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

Tim LaHaye

Self, Ruts, Persons

Tim LaHaye, Ed Hindson (2010). “Seduction of the Heart”, p.100, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

Pema Chodron

Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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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.

Pema Chodron

Honesty, Kindness, World

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

Katrina Kenison

Being Alone, Holiday, Opportunity

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

Gary Haugen

Justice, Done, Want

Twitter post from Dec 24, 2016

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

Tom Rath

May, Way, Well Being

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