Add Value Everywhere Quotes
The surest way to rise is to lift. The man who adds value everywhere he goes builds a gravity that pulls opportunity, loyalty, and goodwill toward him. This Impact path holds history's deepest quotes on service and contribution. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'”
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'”
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
“The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.”
“How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.”
“Imagine what a harmonious world could be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at.”
“Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
“The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the fault finders combined.”
“He profits most who serves best.”
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“Through service we gather the harvest that has been sown in contemplation.”
“Make yourself necessary to somebody.”
“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.”
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”
“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.”
“As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.”
“Self-actualized people don't sacrifice their potentialities in the service of others; rather, they use their full powers in the service of others.”
“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.”
“The ignorant work for their own profit; the wise work for the welfare of the world, without thought for themselves.”
“Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being.”
“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”
“If you can't get a miracle, become one.”
“Let your light so shine before men that they, seeing your good works, may glorify your Father in heaven. (Matthew 5:16)”
“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”
“We rise by lifting others.”
“Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.”
“Any person that contributes to prosperity must prosper in return.”
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?”
“If you don't know what to do with your life, do something that saves lives. The world is full of people in need, be the part of their life that fills that need.”
“Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?”
“The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.”
“Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value, so that each transaction makes for more life.”
“You give before you get.”
“Meaning is about making a difference, not having an audience.”
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.”
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.”
“Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.”
“Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for that one person.”
“Never get tired of doing little things for others, sometimes those little things occupy the biggest parts of their hearts.”
“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.”
“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
“Put good energy out. Get good energy back.”
“Sometimes a small thing you do can mean everything in another person's life.”
“Grow plus Give equals fulfillment.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.”
“Success is not just about making money. It's about making a difference.”
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
“If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.”
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.”
“No individual can win a game by himself.”
“Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.”
“We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.”
“Be good, see good, receive good.”
“If you want to save the world, save your little corner of the world.”
“Be useful. Contribute more than you can consume.”
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
“Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.”
“Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
“Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve.”
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”
“Whoever wants to be great must become a servant. (Mark 10:43)”
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.”
“No joy can equal the joy of serving others.”
“Success is about making a positive difference to other people's lives”
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
“In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.”
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.”
