B. R. Ambedkar Quotes

I will serve the people in a very humble way.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Not to be ministered unto but to minister.

Always think of yourself as everyone's servant.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They give their lives to the project.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

A good chief gives, he does not take.

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

Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return

Faith and service to others were pillars in Rev. DeBose's life. I knew him as a very kind person and an outstanding public servant.

The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

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

Service is key. And as I have more on my plate, and I have more ambitions and more goals and things I want for myself, I'm realizing more and more how important it is to be a servant.

I'd say most definitely with my faith, there's no room for me with it. It's always about other people. It's always about loving on other people and giving praise where praise is due.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

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