CURATED COLLECTION

A Life of Service to Others

The life spent mostly for others turns out, paradoxically, to be the richest kind.

50 quotes found

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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. If you can't help, at least don't hurt.

—Dalai Lama (14th)Spiritual Leader

Digital Age ERA • East Asia

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My biggest joy is making people around me happy. Giving back is everything.

—DavidoScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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A good leader is someone who can articulate a vision and motivate others to achieve it.

—Dorothy HeightActivist & King

Contemporary ERA • North America

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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

—Ruth Bader GinsburgLawyer

Digital Age ERA • North America

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If the women want rights more than others, give them enough to help them get it.

—Sojourner TruthAbolitionist & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

—Nelson MandelaAnti-Apartheid Activist & President

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

—Thomas JeffersonPresident

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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My work has been about reaching out, joining hands with all kinds of people.

—Dorothy HeightActivist & King

Digital Age ERA • North America

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I sing for the women who carry the world on their shoulders, for their strength.

—Amparo OchoaActivist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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Leadership is about empathy. It is about connecting with people and their stories.

—Jacinda ArdernPolitician

Digital Age ERA • Oceania

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If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

—Toni MorrisonNovelist & Editor

Late Modern ERA • North America

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Entrepreneurship is a team sport. It requires collaboration, trust, and shared risk.

—Victor HwangTheorist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.

—John F. KennedyPresident

Post-War ERA • North America

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You can be anxious, you can be a mother, you can be all of these things.

—Jacinda ArdernPolitician

Digital Age ERA • Oceania

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The unity of government is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence.

—George WashingtonPresident & General

Enlightenment ERA • North America

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We must empower the poor, particularly women, to become agents of their own change.

—Ellen Johnson SirleafPolitician & President

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

—Abraham LincolnPresident

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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No excellent company can be created without excellent culture and excellent people.

—Zhang RuiminAuthor & Thinker

Late Modern ERA • East Asia

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We women stand for justice. We stand for peace and for reconciliation.

—Albertina SisuluActivist

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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My great concern is not whether God is on our side; my great concern is to be on God's side.

—Abraham LincolnPresident

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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