Albert Camus Quotes

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.

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

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

A voluntary deed is infinitely more precious to our national ideas and spirit than a thousandfold poured from the treasury.

I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness.

To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.

I feel more satisfaction - and attach greater value - to providing assists then scoring myself.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

The greatest rewards come when you give of yourself. It's about bettering the lives of others, being part of something bigger than yourself, and making a positive difference.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

I remember calling directors numerous times and saying, 'Oh, you should cast so-and-so instead of me. They're much better for the role.'

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself.

I think if they wanted to get me to leave 'Children in Need,' they'd have to drag me off screaming. It's one thing that's so close to my heart, and I feel passionately about it. I gave up my radio show, with regret, but knowing I'd done it for a long time, the same with Eurovision. But 'Children in Need' is different.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

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 idea of giving up something small for yourself to gain something big for all is not new, but putting that ancient idea into practice is the central necessity of our new age.

We seek no profit, we covet no territory or aggrandizement. We expect no reward and we will accept no compromise.

In all your acts, self interest shall be cast away. Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people, and have always in view not only the present, but of the coming generations.

I resolve in future to live for mankind, as I have heretofore lived for myself.