What You 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. Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

#3. 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

#4. What you do for yourself is fleeting and dies with you. What you do for others has unending benefit and is eternal.

Jerold Panas

#5. What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

Ken Robinson

#6. Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment.

Stephen Richards

#7. 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

#8. Success is defined, not by what you achieve in life, but by what you do for others without expectations.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Living isn't just about doing for yourself,but what you do for others as well.

Nelson Mandela

#10. What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.

Henry Rollins

#11. Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

Stephen Sondheim

#12. Learn to love yourself for you cannot give to others what you do not possess.

Jeffrey Fry

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.

Oprah Winfrey

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. [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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others
even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are. page 202

Jim Butcher

#24. But Doc knew that was the key to successful lying. People judged what other people would do by what they themselves would do. You could tell a hell of a lot about a man by what he assumed others got up to. If you're looking for a thief, bet on the man who's always accusing his neighbors.

Elizabeth Bear

#25. Pause and remember - You alone are responsible for taking an interest in your own growth. Understanding your deepest fears and pain is what will move you forward. If you can do this, you will be rewarded with not only a deeper connection with yourself, but also with others.

Jennifer Young

#26. Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.

Kai Greene

#27. Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Socrates

#28. Focus not on who you are, but on what you can do for others.

Ron Kaufman

#29. I do. I choose you,
which is to choose him and the others and to say
Everything I was ever told of love

was so simple as to be untrue.
Let me see for myself what you desire beside me.
Let me look it in the face and kiss him.

Jameson Fitzpatrick

#30. I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e., "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece."

Antonis Samaras

#31. Jill would kill me if she thought anyone fancied me," he said with charming anxiety.
"No, she wouldn't", Natalie reassured him. "We like our men to be fancied. What we do not like is for them to fancy others. That is when you risk wandering into the realm of sudden and violent death.

Rowan Coleman

#32. When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

Napoleon Hill

#33. Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move forward with conviction and confidence.

Jane Powell

#34. It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

James Hillman

#35. Trust me. If you do not decide where you are heading, and refuse to take the appropriate action, you will end up being shaped into what others would have you become. Then any change will not be made for your benefit but for theirs.

Chris Murray

#36. Grief is such a lonely thing. There is no-one in it with you - others may grieve for the same soul, but they do not grieve exactly for what you also grieve. No-one has lost precisely what you have lost. Not exactly, never exactly. We are in it alone.

Susan Fletcher

#37. When you're a teenager - How do you determine what being a Christian looks like, if you're not willing to be as transparent as the realty TV world we live in? If we are to make it easy for others to find God, we must be more diligent about sharing our stories, openly and honestly.

Sarah Jakes

#38. You have to get beyond blaming others ... give up your excuses ... stand responsible for what you do ... ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.

Price Pritchett

#39. Do unto others as you'd have KARMA do unto you! Stop thinking in terms of "What's in it for me?" and more in terms of "What's in it for the greater good?"!

Tanya Masse

#40. How often do you cave in to the pressures of the crowd, seeking the approval of others instead of the approval of God? We all like to be liked - but that can be a very dangerous thing. Make it your goal to live for Christ and be faithful to Him, regardless of what the crowd demands.

Billy Graham

#41. 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

#42. You may wonder what you can do for humanity. Humanity desperately needs peace. Be an advocate of peace and teach others to think about peace.

Debasish Mridha

#43. What beauty brings is huge. It brings great privilege, great power and potential to do many things. If you are beautiful, doors open for you; people smile at you; you are accepted in places where others aren't. So the relationship that people have with beauty, in a sense, is almost deforming.

Charlotte Rampling

#44. You become a role model because of what you do as a person. There's a certain point where being a role model might come from standing up for yourself and getting rid of emotion that doesn't belong to you, emotion that is being brought on because of racist actions of others.

Claudia Rankine

#45. 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

#46. The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.

Norman Vincent Peale

#47. Reduce risk, lower your required capital, and focus on what you're really good at - and hire others for what you are not.) This is something you should think about in any business: don't try to do everything. You aren't the best at everything. Find out where you have an advantage and stick to that.

Marc Ecko

#48. Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.

Randy Pausch

#49. Do not hide your light for fear of what others may think of you. Let it shine and be a reflection of what is possible.

Kristi Bowman

#50. Father, you know us in secret, and you know all our secret places.
What we do to benefit your kingdom will not be lost if it is not seen by others,
for you see and you reward according to your grace and mercy.
Strengthen us to do good works, visibly or invisibly, always in your name.

G.K. Chesterton

#51. Do what makes you happy. It sounds so simple and yet it's so hard, because few of us do. We live out of fear. We live for others, their hopes and expectations. We do what makes everyone else happy.

Viola Shipman

#52. Never expect God to do for you what you don't do to others.

Bob Marley

#53. What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example: advice.

Sri Chinmoy

#54. I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.

Landon Donovan

#55. To all you dreamers out there ... reach for the stars. Do what others say is impossible ... live your dream!

Timothy Pina

#56. I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

Manuel Puig

#57. Focussing on Karma than on the lessons needed to be learned is setting a trap for "what goes around comes around." Never wish for others what you will not wish for yourself. Do to others as you want done to you. That's what love is about!

Kemi Sogunle

#58. The instand one gives up, that is when it all ends. Keep wishing. Wish strongly! Wish hard! Do not let it matter what kind of being you are! Do not let it matter what pressures others put on you! Continue to wish for that which your heart truly desires!!

CLAMP

#59. Reality is overrated and impossible to understand with any degree of certainty. What you do know for sure is that some ways of looking at the world work better than others. Pick the way that works, even if you don't know why.

Scott Adams

#60. I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you have nothing more to do but if it is improbable ... you can choose to ask the unasked question or walk the unwalked step. For me that has made all the difference.

Gary Holder-Winfield

#61. It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

Beyonce Knowles

#62. Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love-love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet.

Wayne Dyer

#63. Learn new things. Do progressive research into what you do and find out how others outside your quarters are doing it. Dare to be excellent. Average brands easily go into extinction soonest.

Israelmore Ayivor

#64. Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.

John Baldoni

#65. 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

#66. Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren't prepared to go is what will make you great.

Laurence Shahlaei

#67. No one is responsible for your emotional reactions except you. Others can say and do anything they like but what happens inside you is only the result of what you are thinking and feeling.

Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.

#68. Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own? ... you must know what you want and that you want. Fourth question for the conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#69. Life in general you gotta believe in you ... you live your life for you, you do what you do for you, because the moment you start to live your life for others you'll lose yaself within that. Focus on what it is you want to have. Go get it.

Trey Songz

#70. Where do you run for help? When you are in trouble, what is your first instinct? Do you run to others or to God? Is it usually the counsel of another rather than the counsel found in waiting upon God in prayer? Why is this the way it is? Why do we run to man before we run to God?

Kay Arthur

#71. Tessa reached for the words ... You know, in that essay of Donne's, what he says ... about how no man is an island. Everything you do touches others.

Cassandra Clare

#72. What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery.

Epictetus

#73. What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free.

Robert W. Bly

#74. Life isn't about counting what you've earned or what you've done for others. I think life is in those in-between moments when you do something, and you feel really, truly happy just by doing it.

Snigdha Rai

#75. Perspective taking is taking on the perspective of others. It's what we do anytime we buy a gift for someone else ("What would they like?"). So it means breaking the golden rule ("Treat others the way you want to be treated") and instead, acknowledges that others may not want what you want.

David Livermore

#76. You can spare yourself discomfort by keeping your distance, by remaining safely aloof, by maintaining what are largely superficial friendships. But if you do, you will deprive yourselves, and others, of one of the greatest opportunities for learning and for personal growth. - William Bowen

Peter Slevin

#77. You can't control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself. Some people will look down on you for your choices in life, no matter what they are. You can't do anything about that. The only thing you can do is decide how to live your own life. And to hell with everybody else

Marie Sexton

#78. Somebody has to be the pioneer and leave the marks for others to follow ... you've got to have some faith in what you're trying to do. It's easy to have faith as long as it goes along with what you already know. But you've got to have faith in us all the way ...

Tom Wolfe

#79. What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be a better person.

Shannon L. Alder

#80. Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.

Gautama Buddha

#81. The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is looking at the floor, you can look up. It's not your role to follow the others. It's your role to go to your centre and then reflect that, not just to be a mirror to what's happening.

James T. Hubbell

#82. The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

Winston Churchill

#83. Do not believe that any one can know, better than yourself, what is right for you. Listen to what others have to say, but always form your own conclusions.

Wallace D. Wattles

#84. Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The beauty of standup is there is room for everyone, and years of performing in front of crowds will dictate what you can or can't do.

Ted Alexandro

#85. It is exactly when others insist that it's a sign of being free, fresh, and radical to do what everybody's doing that you might want to take notice and think for yourself. Don't be surprised if this is really hard to do.

Jaron Lanier

#86. And maybe no better. There is no government in Mexico. Hell, there's no God in Mexico. Never will be. We are dealing with a people manifestly incapable of governing themselves. And do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

Cormac McCarthy

#87. I want you to be on the lookout for people who talk with unerring conviction and authority about what others should do. Especially about what others should do. These are the people who always seem to lead us into some kind of trouble.

Omar Saif Ghobash

#88. I take it you don't believe in love at first sight." "Does anyone over the age of thirteen? Do you?" "I don't, no," Darcy said. "But I don't rule out for others what I haven't experienced firsthand.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#89. I can get others to do what you do. They won't be as good, but ... okay. It could work. But it doesn't matter because no matter how good they are, they can't replace you. They can't because I don't need you only for what you can do. I need you ... for you.

Karen Chance

#90. Do what is best for you--no matter what others think.

Debasish Mridha

#91. It's not so much what you do for yourself to make a mark on this world but what you pave the way for others that truly makes the difference.

Jes Fuhrmann

#92. He used to say that sinning was not about the bad things you'd done and regretted but about the failure to do what you should have done. Especially for others.' She

Marguerite Poland

#93. It isn't what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It's what kind of mind you have, and how you care for your fellow man
what you can do to help others who can be helped by no one else.

Terry Goodkind

#94. 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

#95. So what if you believe it can't be done. Stop trying to prevent those who do believe from reaching for the stars.

Teyla Branton

#96. Spirituality is a journey inward that connects the Self to yourself. When you know who you are from the inside out, when you do what you sense is right for you, when your thoughts lead you to actions that serve others as well as make you feel good, then you have encountered spirituality.

Iyanla Vanzant

#97. What teachings of Scripture do you still mainly follow out of dutiful habit, not with an eye toward honoring God or being used as a blessing to others? What has your legalistic adherence gained for you, and what has it cost you?

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#98. Be decisive and handle objections as they come, don't relay on others much and don't look to others to determine if you're acting right or wrong. Do what feels right for you.

Auliq Ice

#99. The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.

Bob Hawke

#100. That's basically the mantra of Herr Silverman's teaching - think for yourself and do what's right for you, but let others do the same.

Matthew Quick