Service
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- Make yourself necessary to the world and mankind will give you bread.
- Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Man is here for the sake of other men – above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
- Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem. Their problem.Seth GodinCommonly attributed
- Maturity begins to manifest itself when we feel that our concern for others is greater than our concern for ourselves.
- Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.
- Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
- Money has little value to its possessor unless it also has value to others.
- My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
- Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
- Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.
- No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him, He gives him for mankind.
- No man is good but as he wishes the good of others.
- No man stands so straight as one who stoops to help a child.
- No one has ever become poor by giving.
- No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to any one else.
- No one may become a real leader in any walk of life without practicing the habit of doing more work and better work than that for which he is paid.
- No; the two kinds of people on earth I mean Are the people who lift, and the people who lean.
- No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
- Nothing is degrading which a high and graceful purpose ennobles, and offices the most menial cease to be menial the moment they are wrought in love.
- Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being’s suffering.
- Now, there is no preservative and antiseptic, nothing that keeps one's heart young, like love, like sympathy, like giving one's self with enthusiasm to some worthy thing or cause.
- Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.
- One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
- One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
- One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.Dick GregoryCommonly attributed
- One person can and does make a difference.
- One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
- Only those live who do good.
- Organizations exist only to serve. Leaders exist only to serve.
- Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
- Our gifts and attainments are not only to be light and warmth in our own dwellings, but are to shine through the window, into the dark night, to guide and cheer bewildered travellers on the road.
- Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them at least don’t hurt them.
- Our sphere in life may be very humble, but if we overcome our own weaknesses, help others along life's pathway, and do our daily work better than we need, our life cannot be other than successful.
- Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities. We gain only as we give. There is no beggar so destitute as he who can afford nothing to his neighbor.
- Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible.
- People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
- People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.
- People don’t want what you make They want what it will do for them.Seth GodinCommonly attributed
- Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.