Service
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- Happiness is a roadside flower growing on the highways of usefulness; plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit. Trample the thyme beneath thy feet; be useful, be happy.
- He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
- He finds assistance in adversity who renders services in prosperity.
- He must mingle with the world that desires to be useful.
- He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
- He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.Edmund BurkeCommonly attributed
- He who does good to others makes the biggest gift to himself.
- He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
- He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.
- He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.
- He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
- He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
- Helping others is the way we help ourselves.
- Here was a lesson in economics. And economics is simply the science of business, and business is the science of human service.
- History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.
- How deeply you touch another life is how rich your life is.
- How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
- I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.
- I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
- I don’t care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they’ve got to give something back.
- I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- I have learned to prize the quiet lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels, which men call fame.
- I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
- I preach as a dying man to dying men.
- I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
- I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
- If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do; think up something appropriate, and do it.
- If customers leave without a purchase, you have not failed. But if customers leave without a smile, you have.Ron KaufmanSourced
- If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
- If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
- If I look at the mass I will never act.
- If the world's a wilderness, Go, build houses in it!
- If two angels were sent down from heaven, one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street, they would feel no inclination to change employments.
- If we are not famous for goodness, we are practically infamous.
- If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.
- If you are moved with a vague desire to help men be better men, you must know that you can do it not by belabouring the evil but by training the good that there is in them.
- If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.
- If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.