Jim Broadbent Quotes

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.

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

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

When you think in terms of public service, I heard so much about what Mother Theresa had done in her life. And I was fortunate enough to get a chance to meet her and talk to her a lot about what motivates her and what drives her. And that, to me, is a person that really is an extraordinary role model.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

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

What matters is how well we do in trying to make people's lives better. That's why I'm doing this. That's why I work the way that I work. And that's why I love what I'm doing so much.

You have got to give. There is no other reason to be on the planet.

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.

To work to make the lives or others better is the most rewarding work of all.

Not surprisingly, most people feel most beautiful when they are involved in an act of service, or are doing something that makes them feel generous, connected, or seen by others.