Kevin Spacey Quotes

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

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

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.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

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

I don't want my life to just be about me.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever.

If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for the life that I lead.

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

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

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I aspire to be useful.

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

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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.

I hope I contribute something useful to the human family. That's my intention. And I hope that it's useful to people.

Life is short. Do whatever you can to help people - not for status, but because the 95-year-old you will be proud if you did help people and disappointed if you didn't.