Elie Wiesel Quotes

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

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

I aspire to be useful.

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

I have endured pain and suffering in my life, things haven't always been easy, I have suffered. And now I can help people in their lives.

I was sitting around, moping and feeling badly for myself. I went to the hospital to visit a child, and it hit me: helping people is what I'm meant to do.

You can't focus on yourself. You need to focus on what you're doing for others, and then you can start to heal.

I hope I can use everything that's being offered to me to do good in other people's lives.

Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered.

Personally I am always looking for God to show me where He would like me to give or make a difference in someone else’s life. I wake up every day and ask God how He would like me to be a blessing to someone that day.

The best medicine for despair is service.

If you devote yourself to more than yourself ... you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.

Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the results.

No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

I want to serve the people.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

As creative people, we should be really conscious of being of service in our work, being as generous as we can.

I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.

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

If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for the life that I lead.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.