Impact Quotes
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“In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.”
“Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
“Through service we gather the harvest that has been sown in contemplation.”
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
“Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
“Sometimes a small thing you do can mean everything in another person's life.”
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.”
“If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.”
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
“How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.”
“The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.”
“Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for that one person.”
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
“There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good.”
“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”
“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.”
“Put good energy out. Get good energy back.”
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
“As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.”
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
“Success is about making a positive difference to other people's lives”
“Be good, see good, receive good.”
“If you help people get what they want, you can get what you want.”
“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.”
“Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value, so that each transaction makes for more life.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.”
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
“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.”
“Any person that contributes to prosperity must prosper in return.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.”
“Never get tired of doing little things for others, sometimes those little things occupy the biggest parts of their hearts.”
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.”
“You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
“It's good to be blessed. It's better to be a blessing.”
“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
“Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.”
“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”
“Give yourself entirely to those around you. Be generous with your blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
“We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.”
“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.”
“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”
“Giving opens the way to receiving.”
“We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.”
“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.”
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.”
“If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.”
“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.”
“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.”
“Life is a boomerang. What you give, you get back.”
“Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back a lot more than you'd expect.”
“If you need a miracle, be a miracle.”
“Give, even if you only have a little.”
“Only when you have learned to give all will you be in position to receive all.”
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
“The best things to do with the best things in life is give them away.”
“No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of another.”
“If you're in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%”
“That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
“Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.”
“Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners”
“There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
“People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.”
“The happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”
“The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice”
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
“It's not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.”
“Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”
“I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back...”
“For it is in giving that we receive.”
“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.”
“The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift.”
“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
“You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.”
“Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get.”
“It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”
“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.”
“When you learn, teach. When you get, give.”
“There are those that give with joy, and that joy is their reward.”
“Giving is not just about making a donation. It is about making a difference.”
“Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.”
“Compassion is incomplete without wisdom.”
“You can't pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.”
“Boundaries are a part of self-care. They are healthy, normal, and necessary.”
“Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.”
“If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.”
“Give, but don't allow yourself to be used. Love, but don't let your heart be abused.”
“Do not let your generosity become your burden.”
“There is a fine line between being generous and being taken advantage of.”
“Sometimes you have to give yourself the love and support you give to others.”
“To leave the world better than you found it, that is the ultimate success.”
“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.”
“You were born with the ability to change someone's life - don't ever waste it.”
“Be a builder - build something that outlasts you”
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
“The goal is not just to succeed, but to create something that lasts for generations”
“Success is about creating something timeless”
“Legacy is greater than currency.”
“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.”
“How can I leave my mark on the world, I thought, unless I get out there first and make sure it's still around?”
“Success is not about money; it's about making a difference and creating something lasting”
“And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“So when a great man dies, for years beyond our ken, the light he leaves behind him lies upon the paths of men.”
“Sharing your knowledge is the only way to achieve immortality.”
“Success is making a dent in the universe, one step at a time”
“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.”
“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.”
“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
“True greatness consists in being great in little things.”
“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
“If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world...”
“Your legacy is every life you've touched.”
“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'”
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”
“Success isn't just what you accomplish in your life. It's what you inspire others to do.”
“Work hard, have fun, make history”
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
“My goal was never to just build a company; it was to build something that would last”
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.”
