Top 100 Do For Others Quotes
#1. Your place in history depends on what you do for others, not what others do for you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#2. You must understand that it is not in the nature of Man to be grateful. So in whatever you or I do for others we must never expect gratitude. If we do, we will only be disappointed.
S R Nathan
#3. The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.
Lew Wallace
#4. Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas
#5. You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.
Wayne Dyer
#6. Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.
Korie Robertson
#7. I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. "Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette," she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#8. What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.
Jerold Panas
#9. Focus not on who you are, but on what you can do for others.
Ron Kaufman
#10. The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.
Tony Robbins
#11. One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll
#12. At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.
Pema Chodron
#13. If you are uncertain or in confusion don't take any decisions. If you feel you can do something just feel it and do it.
you cannot justify your actions that you do for others when you are unstable.
People will feel for something all the time and you cannot make them happy anyway...
Giridhar Alwar
#14. What we do for ourselves dies with us, what we do for others remains in the world today
Albert Camus
#15. Forgiveness is letting go and letting go is painful. It's not something we do for others; it's something we do for ourselves.
Jewel E. Ann
#17. If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others!
Barack Obama
#18. The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources.
Brian Tracy
#19. Thinking of the good our work can do for others, beyond our daily to-do list, helps us change how we do what we do in ways that add meaning to our work.
David Sturt
#20. A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed ... What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.
Kirk Douglas
#21. Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.
Randy Pausch
#22. What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.
Ken Robinson
#23. We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others
Harry Truman
#24. Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment.
Stephen Richards
#25. Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You'll be surprised at the results.
John Wooden
#26. If you can't do respect for yours, you can't do for others.
Albert Einstein
#27. Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.
Danny Thomas
#28. Help them to show the world that our greatness is not in things we do for ourselves, but in things we do for others.
Lisa Wingate
#29. You measure success by how much good you do for others.
Zig Ziglar
#30. Never imagine that what you do for others or what you do in private doesn't matter. It counts more than we know. God watches how we steward what is not our own before He entrusts us with more.
Lisa Bevere
#31. A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.
Ashly Lorenzana
#32. The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
#33. You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.
Janelle Monae
#34. What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.
Simon Sinek
#35. The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others
Walt Disney
#36. If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#37. Success is defined, not by what you achieve in life, but by what you do for others without expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#38. I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.
Isabelle Adjani
#39. The more we do "together," the less individualistic we'll be. The more we become "one" with Christ, the less consumer oriented we'll be. The more we do for "others," the less materialistic we'll be.
Hugh Halter
#40. To lead happy, contented, peaceful lives, remember all the good times you share with others, forget all the good you do for others.
Rita Zahara
#41. The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.
William J.H. Boetcker
#42. When we do for others, we can't help but be touched by the love and generosity we thought we were giving away.
Kimberly Kirberger
#43. The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.
Muhammad Ali
#44. God chooses people not for what He can do for them, but for the good they can do for others.
Max Anders
#45. That's the key. The quests are things you need to do for others so that you can learn.
Kaza Kingsley
#47. That which we do for ourselves dies with us ... that which we do for others lives forever.
Albert Pike
#48. GOD blesses you so that He can do for others through you;it is not always about you.
D.A. McBride
#49. I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.
Jay Duplass
#50. What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician; HE PASSED IT ON.
Keith Richards
#51. Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate best-selling author - but I live and die for the work. That's thrilling to me. It's thrilling that I do for others what certain writers did for me when I was a kid.
James Ellroy
#52. Living isn't just about doing for yourself,but what you do for others as well.
Nelson Mandela
#53. People, most especially those who have known ease in this life, care more about being prospered than refined. It's always about what they can get from God, not what they can do for others, unless they can call attention to it for others to see.
Donna Lynn Hope
#54. The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.
Simon Sinek
#55. What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.
Henry Rollins
#56. What I do for myself stays within me, what I do for others lasts a lifetime.
Marc Trestman
#57. What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
Giordano Bruno
#58. First, know thine own ideal - spiritual, mental and material; not as to what ye would have others do, but what ye would do for others.
Edgar Cayce
#59. If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it.
Tony Campolo
#60. It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.
Lewis Carroll
#61. Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
Stephen Sondheim
#62. I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
Karl Marlantes
#63. The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.
Donald Knuth
#64. CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.
John Piper
#65. You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others.
Toni Sorenson
#66. My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
Marquis De Sade
#67. Learn to love yourself for you cannot give to others what you do not possess.
Jeffrey Fry
#68. If life is a game, then the people who play in center with their own style only make the real name; but for others the aim is just the same for they do anything from comment, copy, criticize, cover or cheer by being anywhere.
Anuj
#69. The worst of me wants credit for intending to do right by Jermaine, and has no intentions of disrupting my life for the needs of a cousin I always looked up to.
Kiese Laymon
#70. Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
Daniel Everett
#71. You can't rely on the approval of others. I used to always look for praise from my directors to reassure myself that I was doing a good job. I don't do that anymore.
Jacob Vargas
#72. Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.
A.M. Homes
#73. The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.
Amy Chua
#74. I'd like to be known for stepping up, and encouraging others to do the same.
Leigh Anne Tuohy
#75. When we stand, we do so not only for ourselves, but also for countless others who have similar stories but may never have an opportunity to be witnessed.
William Keepin
#76. If i can do just one tenth of the good
Michael Jackson did for others, i can really make a difference in this world
Justin Bieber
#77. Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?
Nancy Gibbs
#78. But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you ... . Do to others as you would have them do to you. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
Gary Chapman
#79. Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.
Paul Bley
#80. You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.
Wilbert Rideau
#81. I can go through life as a victim, blaming others for my misfortunes, and experiencing frustration over my condition. Or I can choose to be an active agent and do what I can do to bring about a positive change in my life.
Tal Ben-Shahar
#82. Avoid the Yes or No-and-Go scenario.Give more than one option for others to do business with you. Include packages or pricing options.
Lisa A. Mininni
#83. Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.
Oprah Winfrey
#84. If we are going to live in a society, there has to be an attitude where people really do care for others.
Sakyong Mipham
#85. If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.
Hortense Canady
#86. The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.
Dalai Lama
#87. All the people in the Kuo-ch'ing monastery They say, "Han-shan is an idiot." "Am I really an idiot:" I reflect. But my reflections fail to solve the question: for I myself do not know who the self is, And how can others know who I am?
Hanshan
#88. Help your children to see and notice poverty and differences in privilege that seem inhumane and unfair. Do this in a way that does not increase guilt or shame for what you have as a family, but rather helps them see their responsibility for sharing with others and keeping others in mind.
Polly Young-Eisendrath
#89. And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others. It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
Aberjhani
#90. Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see the effect of their pollution or pesticides on others. But Texans have an appreciation for water problems and are very aware of the droughts.
Gail Collins
#91. [The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what excites you excites others. Spend more time assuming people have good reasons for what they do or say and then figure out those good reasons.
John Daly
#92. Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.
Joyce Meyer
#93. Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.
Sharon Salzberg
#94. Life becomes so unfair when you don't get what others do. But don't worry, God has decided something better for you.
Vj Nadar
#95. Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity and fear of others. Never decide to do nothing just because you can only do little. Do what you can. You would be surprised at what "little" acts have done for our world.
Steve Maraboli
#96. Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.
John C. Maxwell
#97. Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion.
Donald Trump
#98. I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well.
Jack Kirby
#99. If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for the life that I lead.
William T. Vollmann
#100. Do not base your life on the likings and dislikings or whims of others. What you are in life - whether you enjoy or suffer - it is your own responsibility. Be regular in your meditation and do not postpone for a later date your striving for God consciousness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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