Lance Armstrong Quotes

If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

Whatever avenue I feel like I can make a difference in, I'd love to do.

I love getting out on the streets and helping people.

I was sitting around, moping and feeling badly for myself. I went to the hospital to visit a child, and it hit me: helping people is what I'm meant to do.

I just want to do something that I feel makes a difference.

When I'm not hitting the books or on the court working, I like to help out around my community.

That's what it's all about, going out and being able to help in the community and help people around you. That's going to carry far longer than basketball ever will.

What could I do with $1 million? What can I do with the satisfaction that I perhaps today helped somebody to have a better life. That's real reward. The million dollars, nothing.

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.

It's all about giving back, helping people and encouraging people. I love to do that.

I like to focus on what I'm doing now, which is giving back. I've done interventions with people I've been close to.

I think of success as reaching beyond ourselves and helping other people in specific ways.

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others

Serving reconnects people to purpose. Serving someone else's dream empowers not just us, but them.

I enjoy helping. I like doing benefits and things like that, but don't feel the need to be thanked or even meet the people I am doing the benefit for.

Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.

I've always felt I want to be of service to the world somehow. I haven't yet figured out how to do it, and I may never figure out how to do it.