Cornel West Quotes

If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of a cause that is much larger than you; one that brings a greater good to a greater community.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service. Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy.

I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

Serve a cause greater than your self interest.

Whatever your cause, whatever your motivation, I hope you'll agree with me that volunteer service is an extraordinary gift.

A happy life is a life for others.

Significance in life doesn’t come from status, because you can always find somebody who’s got more than you. It doesn’t come from sex. It doesn’t come from salary. It comes from serving.

From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

Volunteering is a window into the passions of the soul.

Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself.

There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.

Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

We are all here on earth to help others.

Personally I am always looking for God to show me where He would like me to give or make a difference in someone else’s life. I wake up every day and ask God how He would like me to be a blessing to someone that day.