Amity Shlaes Quotes

If you devote yourself to more than yourself ... you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

If they want to write about me in a good way, they should write how I do things that are useful.

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.

You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.

We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.

It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

I hope that when I'm 90 years old, I've accomplished a legacy that isn't all about me. I hope it's a legacy about the people who our foundation helps.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.

To have a meaningful life, you have to be of service …

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

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

I want to do good work in the world.

I don't want to be forgotten or not have helped as many people as I can before I pass.

My life is only important if i can help plenty of people