Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- 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
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali (world champion boxer)
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
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
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- 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
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- 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
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 path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
And so, my fellow Americans,
ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
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
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
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
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 can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
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
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
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
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
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 greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
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
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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 cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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