Barack Obama Quotes

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.

It's good to be authentic, to help other people, but if it's not helping other people, then don't do it.

Think about all the good things of your life. Never think about your difficulties. Forget yourself, and concentrate on being of service as much as you can in this world, and then, having lost your lower self in a cause greater than yourself, you will find your higher self: your real self.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.

Two things, generally, for me, is what life is about. And they're not funny. Living in the moment, is one. And No. 2 is getting out of yourself and helping other people. Because all of my suffering stems from thinking from myself.

Ever since I was young, I have wanted to help others live happy, healthy, fulfilling lives.

Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there’s always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself.

From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

I'm one of those people who want to give back and see other people do better.

That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.

If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.

Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.