Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I resolve in future to live for mankind, as I have heretofore lived for myself.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind should we serve?

Serve a cause greater than your self interest.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

No definition of a quality life does not include service to others.

The great happiness in life is not to donate but to serve.

Not everyone can be famous, but everyone can be great. Because greatness is a matter of service.

Service to others is the rent you pay for space on earth.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

There's no such thing as altruism.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.