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There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
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We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
Service to others is only noble when is is a choice
- a free-will gift.
Anything done out of a sense of obligation
or responsibility or duty becomes a burden
rather than a spiritual empowerment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Living Into the Great Paradox,
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life serves up.
I work to bring about my vision of the future,
which is based on my value system of what is right,
just, noble, compassionate, generous, humane, peaceful, and loving.
Simultaneously, I accept that my vision
is based on only my opinions and prejudices,
and I honor all points of view and value systems,
no matter how different from my own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Just as a man would not cherish living
in a body other than his own,
so do nations not like to live under other nations,
however noble and great the latter may be.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter
Instead of noblemen,
let us have noble villages of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
That service is the noblest
which is rendered for its own sake.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
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
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
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