George H. W. Bush Quotes

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

My life nah important to me, but other people life important. My life is only important if me can help plenty people. If my life is just for me and my own security then me no want it. My life is for people. That's way me is.

When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Some of our finest work comes through service to others.

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

I love creating opportunities for people. I think it's my orphan mentality.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it.

It is only in helping someone else to awake that I awake.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.