Serve & Impact the World

Serve & Impact the World is where purpose meets action — using your gifts, resources, and influence to lift others higher and create lasting change. In this Pillar, you’ll learn to add value everywhere you go, empower through generosity, and balance giving with boundaries so your impact remains strong and sustainable. You’ll discover how to leave a legacy that inspires future generations, builds movements around your values, and continues to create opportunity long after you’re gone. Whether you’re mentoring the next wave of leaders, planting seeds for a better future, or turning everyday moments into opportunities to serve, this Pillar gives you the vision, discipline, and heart to change lives — and leave the world better than you found it.

Greatness creates opportunities for others to succeed, leveraging his influence and resources to open doors they couldn’t access alone.
Greatness uplifts others by recognizing and amplifying their strengths, helping them see their own potential and take action toward their goals.
Greatness shares his wisdom with those who show potential and a willingness to learn, knowing his guidance can help them grow and succeed.
Greatness starts each day committed to adding value, knowing his growth comes from consistent contributions to the greater good.
Greatness determines how he can make a meaningful difference, seeking unique ways to contribute and uplift others.
Greatness collaborates with others in service, combining efforts to create lasting impact and elevate collective results.
Greatness goes out of his way to help others fix overlooked problems, knowing that a habit of contribution trains his mind to see abundance, opportunity, and connection everywhere.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
— John Holmes
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
— Booker T. Washington
How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
— Unknown
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
— John Ruskin
Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)
— Cicero
No one has ever become poor by giving.
— Anne Frank
If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.
— Buddha
The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.
— Iyanla Vanzant
If you help people get what they want, you can get what you want.
— Zig Ziglar
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
— Muhammad Ali
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Any person that contributes to prosperity must prosper in return.
— Earl Nightingale
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
— -
Be good, see good, receive good.
— Adam Bercier
Success is about making a positive difference to other people's lives
— Richard Branson
Put good energy out. Get good energy back.
— Lawrence Tierney
Sometimes a small thing you do can mean everything in another person's life.
— Unknown
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
— Mother Teresa
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
— Jim Rohn
There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good.
— Unknown
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
— Winston Churchill
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.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
— Tony Robbins
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
— Rabindranath Tagore
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
— Benjamin Franklin
Never get tired of doing little things for others, sometimes those little things occupy the biggest parts of their hearts.
— Unknown
As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
— Saint Francis of Assisi
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
— Napoleon Hill
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.
— Anne Frank
Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for that one person.
— Unknown
Through service we gather the harvest that has been sown in contemplation.
— Unknown
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
— Karl Reiland
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
— Aesop
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.
— Unknown
Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value, so that each transaction makes for more life.
— Wallace D. Wattles

Greatness inspires generosity by leading through example, showing that true service enriches both the giver and the receiver.
Greatness fosters a culture of giving, inspiring others to pay generosity forward rather than keeping it to themselves.
Greatness gives selflessly, expecting nothing in return, focusing on impact over recognition and empowering others without seeking control or praise.
Greatness receives gifts with gratitude, knowing that rejecting generosity robs the giver of joy and weakens his own ability to accept abundance.
Greatness shares his platform and connections, knowing generosity isn’t just about giving money but also providing access to opportunities.
Greatness helps those less fortunate, genuinely caring about their well-being while ensuring his efforts create lasting impact.
Greatness empowers others with tools, knowledge, and resources that foster independence, knowing true generosity extends beyond money.
Greatness gives time to those who are driven to improve, prioritizing those who show commitment over those who expect handouts.
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
— William E. Gladstone
It's good to be blessed. It's better to be a blessing.
— Unknown
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
— Simone de Beauvoir
If you're in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%
— Warren Buffett
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
— Aesop
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
— Kahlil Gibran
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
— John Wooden
Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
— Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
— Sai Baba
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
— Orison Swett Marden
Only when you have learned to give all will you be in position to receive all.
— Ernest Holmes
The happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Give yourself entirely to those around you. Be generous with your blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
— Steve Maraboli
Giving opens the way to receiving.
— Unknown
The best things to do with the best things in life is give them away.
— Dorothy Day
Give, even if you only have a little.
— Buddha
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
— W. Clement Stone
Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
— Henry Ford
Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.
— James Russell Miller
No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of another.
— Charles Dickens
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
— Thomas J. Watson
Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
— Christopher Reeve
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
— Lao Tzu
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
— Unknown
The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.
— Pierre Corneille
When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
— Maya Angelou
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
— Lao Tzu
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
— James Keller
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.
— Mark Twain
The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get.
— Unknown
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
— Dale Carnegie
Giving is not just about making a donation. It is about making a difference.
— Kathy Calvin
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
— Maya Angelou
I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back...
— Ken Blanchard
There are those that give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
— Kahlil Gibran
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
— John Harrigan
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice
— Bill Gates
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back a lot more than you'd expect.
— Robert Half
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
— John E. Southard
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a boomerang. What you give, you get back.
— Unknown
If you need a miracle, be a miracle.
— Dr. Phil McGraw
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
— Kahlil Gibran
For it is in giving that we receive.
— Saint Francis of Assisi
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
— Ben Carson
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
— Stephen R. Covey
There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
— Booker T. Washington
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
— Kahlil Gibran
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
— Albert Einstein
It's not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.
— Patti Thor
Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners
— Sam Walton

Greatness protects his energy by discerning between those who need help and those who just take, ensuring his generosity fuels impact, not entitlement.
Greatness doesn’t let guilt or obligation dictate his giving - he serves from a place of strength, not weakness.
Greatness maintains generosity without self-sacrifice, knowing that overextending himself diminishes his ability to serve long-term.
Greatness supports others in ways that help them grow independently, ensuring his generosity empowers rather than creates dependency.
Greatness directs his time and resources where they create the greatest impact, focusing on meaningful contributions rather than spreading himself too thin.
Greatness gives freely but sets firm boundaries, ensuring his generosity isn’t taken for granted or exploited.
If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
— Rita Dove
Sometimes you have to give yourself the love and support you give to others.
— Unknown
Compassion is incomplete without wisdom.
— Unknown
Give, but don't allow yourself to be used. Love, but don't let your heart be abused.
— Unknown
Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.
— Dodinsky
Boundaries are a part of self-care. They are healthy, normal, and necessary.
— Doreen Virtue
There is a fine line between being generous and being taken advantage of.
— Unknown
You can't pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.
— Unknown
Do not let your generosity become your burden.
— Unknown

Greatness filters major decisions through the lens of legacy, ensuring every choice strengthens his long-term impact instead of sabotaging his future.
Greatness commits to making a lasting impact, knowing that sustained efforts over time create meaningful change.
Greatness refuses to let his starting point define his destiny - he sees himself as the one who will elevate his family’s trajectory, setting a new standard for generations to come.
Greatness creates a movement around his values, ensuring his impact spreads beyond just those he directly helps.
Greatness builds systems and initiatives that provide lasting value, designed to continue benefiting others without relying on his active ongoing involvement.
Greatness doesn’t just want to be remembered - he works to build something that keeps changing lives long after he’s gone.
Greatness finds purpose in creating a lasting impact through his actions and contributions.
Greatness sees life as a relay race - he takes the baton from his family and sprints forward, never coasting with a lead or making excuses when behind, knowing it’s his duty to advance progress.
Greatness builds for the future, knowing true impact comes from planting seeds today that will grow for generations, even if he never sees the results.
Greatness measures ultimate success by the legacy he leaves - one that inspires, empowers, and elevates future generations long after he's gone.
Greatness works to leave the world better than he found it, prioritizing impact over personal gain.
Greatness mentors the next generation, passing down knowledge and principles that outlast his time and direct presence.
The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
— Leo Rosten
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
— Charles Simmons
Legacy is greater than currency.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world...
— Theodore Roosevelt
Success is not about money; it's about making a difference and creating something lasting
— Carlos Slim
You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
— Henry Drummond
Success is about creating something timeless
— Bernard Arnault
Be a builder - build something that outlasts you
— Tim Cook
Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
— John F. Kennedy
The goal is not just to succeed, but to create something that lasts for generations
— Bernard Arnault
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.
— Unknown
How can I leave my mark on the world, I thought, unless I get out there first and make sure it's still around?
— Phil Knight
Work hard, have fun, make history
— Jeff Bezos
Your legacy is every life you've touched.
— Maya Angelou
So when a great man dies, for years beyond our ken, the light he leaves behind him lies upon the paths of men.
— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
You were born with the ability to change someone's life - don't ever waste it.
— Unknown
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My legacy to me is when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'
— Dana White
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
— Leo Tolstoy
Sharing your knowledge is the only way to achieve immortality.
— Dalai Lama
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.
— Shannon L. Alder
To leave the world better than you found it, that is the ultimate success.
— Unknown
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
— Abraham Lincoln
My goal was never to just build a company; it was to build something that would last
— Larry Ellison
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
— Warren Buffett
Success isn't just what you accomplish in your life. It's what you inspire others to do.
— Unknown
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
— William James
Success is making a dent in the universe, one step at a time
— Steve Case

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