Quotes on Live For Others

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the non-violence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.

I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

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

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.