Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

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

I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

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

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

I run a bunch of charities and I say this line to people: 'I am somebody who has always been helped.' A little thing like that can make people believe it.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.

The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily, does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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

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.

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

I get true joy out of that, being able to help people.

I hope I can use everything that's being offered to me to do good in other people's lives.

At a pretty young age, I wanted to do something with my life that would help people. I've been that way for quite a while.

Life is short. Help more people.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

So get accomplished what you want to get accomplished in your life. And in the intervals, do what you can to help other people.

I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.

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

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

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

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.