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Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali (world champion boxer)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
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.
- Albert Schweitzer
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer
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