Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your spare time.
- Marion Wright Edelman
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- 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
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
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
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
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- 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
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
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
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
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do something for somebody everyday
for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer
I try to give to the poor people for love
what the rich could get for money.
No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds;
yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa
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
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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