A Quote by Paul Jacobs

One of the biggest motivators is to be part of something larger than yourself.

Paul Jacobs

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Paul Jacobs
American - Activist
August 24, 1918 - January 3, 1978

Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger - and there really has to be, because plainly you aren't sufficient to the situation.

Diana Gabaldon

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

Peter Lindbergh

Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool.

Samuel L. Jackson

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself

Frank Langella

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

Frank Langella

When you sign up to become something, you're signing up to become something larger than yourself. Represent something more than yourself.

Bubba Wallace

People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they're really proud of, that they'll fight for, sacrifice for, that they trust.

Howard Schultz

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

Carrie Underwood

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

Clay Shirky

You want to be part of something like that, that's something bigger than yourself, that's something you leave a legacy of being part of something special.

Saquon Barkley

You don't have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself.

Mitt Romney

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

John McCain

You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

Joan Osborne

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

Pablo Casals

Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.