Loretta Lynch Quotes

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

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

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.

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

I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.

The most important thing is you have to want to do something for somebody other than yourself.

It's always easier to sacrifice when you're not the one who has to do it.

The key lesson for me: Don't make this life about you. It's about other people.

Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

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

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

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.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.