Catherine Booth Quotes

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The most important thing is contribution because the secret to living is giving. If you catch on to that you start realizing that there's nothing you can get that comes close to what you can give. Life is calling all of us to be more than just about ourselves and that is when we get that spiritual hit.

Remember, purpose is about giving...All you can do with your life is to give it away in the service of others.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work.

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 aspire to be useful.

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

I want to do good work in the world.

Significance in life doesn’t come from status, because you can always find somebody who’s got more than you. It doesn’t come from sex. It doesn’t come from salary. It comes from serving.

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

I like to be useful to people.

I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.

In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.

Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.

I grew up in the church, and so I feel that God gave me certain things to do, and I'm lucky enough to kind of have figured those things out. I just don't want to die not having tried to help somebody else with what I know.

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

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .

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

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

I've always felt I want to be of service to the world somehow. I haven't yet figured out how to do it, and I may never figure out how to do it.