John Strachan Quotes

Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?

Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.

I'm on a mission to help people grow and give. The more they grow the more they can give, the more life they build, the greater the quality of their life.

Your needs will be met once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's need.

I just strive to do better. Every time I meet somebody, I ask myself, "How can I help this person?"

I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.

I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.

There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it's our commitment to something beyond ourselves that is truly estimable to ourself and others.

I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.

It's always nice to look in the mirror at the end of the day and see that you helped somebody's life... even if only a little bit.

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.

I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. I cannot conceivably influence the world's destiny, but I can make my own life more worthwhile. I can give some help to some people; that is not vital to all the world's problems and yet, I think if everyone did just that, we might see quite a world in our time!

Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place.

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.

You can't really help people until you've helped yourself first.

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

Give something back by becoming more

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.