Selfless Contribution Quotes

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

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

I've never asked or demanded a penny from United.

The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.

I have found so much joy and so much pride in contributing and being a team member, and then stepping back and watching someone else get the applause. That has been really satisfying in a way that I wouldn't have probably imagined.

Whenever I feel I'm working in a groove it's invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather than the beneficiary. I am sharing my art with others, lending my craft to theirs, interest-free with no IOU.

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.

The greatest joy I get is setting up plays for somebody else. I take a lot of pride in helping other people make plays.

There are people who dismiss any ideas you have about helping, but anything has got to be better than doing absolutely nothing... hasn't it?

Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.

Federal officials should serve without pay.

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

My objective is not to play for money, as I just want to leave good memories. That is the most important thing!

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.

We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?

Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. 'You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

Music has done much more for me than I have for music.

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.