Service
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- The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
- The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living. Life is something more than these, and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life-service for others.
- The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.
- The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
- The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified.
- The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
- The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
- The most useful is the greatest.
- The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
- The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.
- The power of using my limbs shall fail me before the power of being useful.
- The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
- The right measure is not how many customers you've got, but how closely you hold them.Ron KaufmanSourced
- The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.
- The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
- The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
- The surest cure for loneliness, the quickest way to happiness, is found in this, a simple creed: Go serve someone in greater need.
- The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?
- The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
- The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.
- The true way of softening one's troubles is to solace those of others.
- The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.
- The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
- Then said a rich man, Speak to us of Giving. And he answered: You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- There are few occasions when ceremony may not be easily dispensed with, but kindness, never.
- There are two ways of spreading light; to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.
- There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.
- There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
- There is no escape — man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
- There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.
- There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
- There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being – to help someone succeed.
- There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
- There is one way of attaining what we may term, if not utter, at least mortal happiness; it is by a sincere and unrelaxing activity for the happiness of others.
- There is only one way to be humble: do not think about yourself, but about how you can serve God and others.
- There never was a person who did anything worth doing that did not receive more than he gave.
- There was something else my mother did that I've always remembered: "Always look for the helpers," she'd tell me. "There's always someone who is trying to help."Fred RogersCommonly attributed
- Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.