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
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
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
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
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
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- 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
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- 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
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 answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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
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
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
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
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
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Do something for somebody everyday
for which you do not get paid.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
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
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
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
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
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 road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
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
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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