Favorite Quotations
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Doing Good: Passion & Commitment for Helping Others
Understanding your customers and your staff is critical to success whether you are running a business or providing services to the community. ~ Peter Gerstmann Help thy brother's boat across and lo! Thine own has reached the shore. ~ Hindu Proverb I believe...that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. ~ Thomas Jefferson We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves. ~ Pema Chodron When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift. ~ Maya Angelou When you are feeling helpless and hopeless, the worst thing you can do is just stand back and let people rescue you. ~ Linda Henley Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. ~ Cesar Chavez As my mother says, “You give back, you don’t give up.” You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you. ~ Susan Ford, Parade, 7/10/05 Who has not served cannot command. ~ John Florio There is a destiny that makes us brothers; None goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. ~ Edwin Markham He alone is worshiping God who serves all beings. ~ Swami Vivekananda Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant. ~ Jimmy Carter It’s not about what you have or what you’ve accomplished. It’s about who you’ve lifted up and made better. It’s about what you’ve given back. ~ Denzel Washington, A Hand to Guide Me
"Obsess about customers, not competitors." ~ Jeff Bezos