Service
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- If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
- If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
- If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.
- If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind/body/ego.
- If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.
- If you want to find God, serve man. To reach Narayana (God), you must serve the Daridra Narayanas (the poor).
- If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
- If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.
- If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
- If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.
- In about the same degree as you are helpful you will be happy.
- In nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
- In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
- Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
- "Is not life useful when it is happy?" asks the egotist. "Is it not sufficiently happy when it is useful?" asks the good man.
- It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.
- It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
- It is not life to live for one's self alone. Let us help one another.
- It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another, without helping himself.
- It should be a joy to hold a candle to another. It will not waste our own light to impart it.
- It takes a big person to do something small.
- It's better by far to deliver more than you promise than to promise more than you can deliver.
- Just imagine that the purpose of your life is your happiness only – then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing […] The meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world. Then life becomes a constant joy.
- Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christlike, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.
- Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good.
- Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly.
- Leadership is not a rank or position to be attained. Leadership is a service to be given.
- Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.
- Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.
- Leave this world a little better than you found it.
- Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.
- Let your Christianity be so unmistakeable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are and whom you serve.J. C. RyleSourced
- Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Life is precious and time is a key element. Let’s make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
- Life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who help others succeed.
- Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.
- Love is many-sided sacrifice. It means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.
- Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.
- Make a rule, and pray to God to help you to keep it, never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say: “I have made one human being at least a little wiser, or a little happier, or at least a little better this day.”
- Make yourself necessary to somebody.