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- If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
- You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
- The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
- The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
- We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than vising to the challenges of the age.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
- In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
- Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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