Tracy Kidder Quotes

The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.

The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others.

The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests. And that is the reason of Christianity. Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which he lives.

I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.

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

What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.

I have found that the more I get my ego out of a picture and the more I think about how can I serve other people instead of always thinking about me, the more miracles show up.

The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

I believe we all have a responsibility to try to help other people in this world. To me, my ability to help and to do good for others will only increase if I'm more known and get to that really super elite level. That would be the huge benefit for me. It would put me in a position where I could just help more people.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

When you serve others, when you make somebody else’s life better, when you lift up people, when you help heal those that are hurting, not only are they being blessed, but you’re being blessed.

To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

Our position in Christ Jesus is enhanced each time we help someone in trouble.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.

Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

The more we help others, the more we help ourselves