Brigham Young Quotes

I aspire to be useful.

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.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

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 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.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

I want to do good work in the world.

I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.

What is important is how much service you can give to the world and how much better you can make things. These are important things. These are all that are important. A bank account never measured the worth of a man. His ability to help measured his worth and that's all. A bank account can assist one to help but where it ceases to do that it becomes useless.

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

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.

Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

Life is short. Be of use.

Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.