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  • Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press
  • Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

    A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
  • When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  • For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

    Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan
  • The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.

    Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.74, Penguin
  • This epic masterpiece tells the world changing story of Jesus and inspires us to love and live for others just as He did.

    Jesus   Epic   Inspire  
  • 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.

  • Learning to live for others isn't something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

  • Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

    Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books
  • I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty.I decided that I would not live for myself but would live for others.

    Mother   Children   House  
    "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim and Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.
  • If I live for self, I can only live for one; if I live for others, I can live for 3,000,000,000.

  • I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.

    Caring   Feet   Support  
  • A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.

    Song   Sleep   Thinking  
  • God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

    Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.67, Image
  • The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

  • I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.

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

  • So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.

  • They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

  • One of the secrets in life is that we really lead a better life when we're living for others than we do when we're living for ourselves, and I think that's the way for our creator intended for it to be, is that if we can live for other people, we really leave this world in a different way.

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  • The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.

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

    Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Family Happiness and Other Stories”, p.12, Courier Corporation
  • It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.97, University of Georgia Press
  • 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.

  • We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

  • Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives 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.

    Life   Art   Business  
  • Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

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

    Screwtape Letters (1942) no. 26
  • Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck inside your own ego, because it will become a prison in no time flat.

    Sacrifice   People   Ego  
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