Sunita Williams Quotes

To have a meaningful life, you have to be of service …

When all is said and done, I want to die exhausted and empty because I gave everything that was in me. I believe that's why we're all here: to give of ourselves to one another to help create a better world, because you can't take it with you.

I'm here on this planet to live in service to humanity.

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

Serve a cause greater than your self interest.

Not everyone can be famous, but everyone can be great. Because greatness is a matter of service.

Now Hillary Clinton and I are 'companeros de alma.' And we share this basic belief: it's simple. Do all the good you can and serve one another. Pretty simple.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

I've come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.

I want to do good work in the world.

The sacrifice of the brave men and women of the military and their families allows us to be safe, and we are grateful.

I was thinking I wanted to finish my life there in Hungnam doing pro bono service.

Find something bigger than yourself and pour every ounce of who you are into it. If that's your family, be the best father on Earth. If you are a cop, firefighter, or a trash man, be the best.

How often do we make films just celebrating people that do a good job, work altruistically, and are in it just for the sake of the love and not the business?

You have got to give. There is no other reason to be on the planet.

I wanted to save people's lives. I wanted to do something good in this world.

Saving people, helping people, is just something I always wanted to do.

I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.

Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom

The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.

Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.

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.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.