Live For Others Quotes

• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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• Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Life, Music

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• Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Grief, Bad Ass

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• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Friendship, True Friend, Heart

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• Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

  Hermann Hesse

  Maturity, Doe, Youth

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• Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Christ's Second Coming Fulfilled". Book by Marion Morris, 1917.

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• Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

  A. B. Simpson

  Blessed, Giving, Forget You

  A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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• They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Alive

  Swami Vivekananda (1990). “Awakened India”

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  I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Men, He Man, True Success

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• Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

  Joyce Meyer

  Train

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• He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life Is, Life Happiness, Certain

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Family Happiness and Other Stories”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• One of the secrets in life is that we really lead a better life when we're living for others than we do when we're living for ourselves, and I think that's the way for our creator intended for it to be, is that if we can live for other people, we really leave this world in a different way.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, People, Secret

  Source: www.pbs.org

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  For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Sleep, Thinking

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• Live simply so others may simply live.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Helping Others, Simply Happy

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• And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Breathing, Feet, Habit

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• If I live for self, I can only live for one; if I live for others, I
  can live for 3,000,000,000.

  Jack Hyles

  Self, Ifs, I Can

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• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the non-violence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.

  Cesar Chavez

  Children, Struggle, Heart

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• God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

  Henri Nouwen

  Want, Wells

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.67, Image

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• Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!

  Kay Arthur

  Running, Epidemics, Self

  Kay Arthur (2004). “God, How Can I Live?”, p.111, Harvest House Publishers

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• The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Monotonous Life, Way, Life Is

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• I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Believe, Sleep, Thinking

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