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Welcome to these Service Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Service and Love.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- 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
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
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
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
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
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world.
Visualize your light radiating throughout the world,
passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
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
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
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
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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 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
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
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
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
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
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