R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

It's about doing something larger than yourself. It's about serving this world, helping others.

Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself.

We have to learn that service to the greater good is the greatest satisfaction. That idea is at the basis of all the great traditions dating back into history. When you get inside yourself - and you really find that deep inner peace that's rooted in love - then you can't live a life that we see being manifested in the large parts of the world right now.

If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of a cause that is much larger than you; one that brings a greater good to a greater community.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

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.

I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

Serve a cause greater than your self interest.

Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to live his life serving others.

The NFL Legends Community is the epitome of service. This isn't about promoting you anymore. It's about promoting something bigger than you.

A happy life is a life for others.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Service to others leads to greatness.

There is incredible value in being of service to others.

I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves

You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.

Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.

If you help and serve others, you will ultimately gain.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service. Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy.

Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world.

Nothing would mean anything if I didn't live a life of use to others.