Doing For Others Quotes

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

George Eliot

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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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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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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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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The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity and not be driven by fear into a rigid, single-solution approach to problems, who are rational, foresightful and who look for facts; who can draw inferences and can control their behavior in the light of foreseen consequences, who are altruistic and enjoy doing for others, and who understand social forces and trends.

Robert J. Havighurst

Light, People, Identity

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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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Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life Changing, Knowing, Littles

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You have to know what you're doing and where you're going. For some guys, the answer is just keep doing what you're doing. For other guys, that might not be the case. It just depends on what kind you are.

Paul Konerko

Baseball, Guy, Might

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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'

Martin Luther

Men, Light, Creative

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