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Positive Quotes about Service

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As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson PHOTO

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

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

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The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain

Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller

 

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

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

You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles

What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa

Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll

You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi

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

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

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein

A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell

I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono

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

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond

The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

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

As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn

Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa

The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer

I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)

Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins


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