Tom Rath Quotes

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

The happiest people are those who are contributing to society.

Various studies indicate that with age people gain more wisdom about life and are somehow happier than younger people. This is especially true if, as we age, we learn how to become more generous, altruistic, and peaceful.

It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.

I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the world be full of charitable people!" - you mean, let the world be full of beggars also. Let the world be full of good works - let the world be full of misery. This is out-and-out slavishness!

If somebody is doing more and more to make other people's lives better, have them make all they can, if that's what drives them, because that's what we want.

It's fun to give pleasure to people.

If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song, the world doesn't need that. But on the other hand, if you give your life to good works - you go and work in a leper colony and it doesn't make you happy - the chances are you're not doing it very well.

Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

If you want to feel more comfortable and happy, work on making the people around you more comfortable and happy.

The happiest people are the most giving people

Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connected to everyone I disappear... in being excellent you lose yourself. And when you're connected to everyone, that's the best thing that can happen.

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others

Those of us who have been very fortunate have a duty to give back. Whether one gives a lot as one goes along as I do or a little and then a lot [when one dies] as Warrendoes is a matter of personal preference. I would hate to have people ask me for money all day long.

I love people. I wanted to be with the people. I wanted to give something back what I get from football, because God gave everything to me.

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

I think big! I choose to help thousands and thousands of people!

Life is short. Help more people.

Dr. Benjamin Carson is one of the finest, most accomplished human beings on this planet who has done more for people than most people in politics will ever do. And he's done it personally, not with other people's money.

Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.