Dalai Lama Quotes

I just play my football, and if I can help people, then I help people.

Volunteering is a window into the passions of the soul.

I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.

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.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

I will serve the people in a very humble way.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I know that if I concentrate on making other people shine, I will shine. It is really about the other person, never about you.

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They give their lives to the project.

No definition of a quality life does not include service to others.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

Always think of yourself as everyone's servant.

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

If I want to leave one thing here after I'm gone, it would be an incredible sense of humility.

A great man is always willing to be little.

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

I'm not an ambitious person. I'm very content, and I have no pending dreams. God has given me so much, and if there's one thing I really want to do, it's to serve the people.

Faith and service to others were pillars in Rev. DeBose's life. I knew him as a very kind person and an outstanding public servant.