Service
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- They alone live, who live for others.
- They also serve who only stand and wait.
- They serve God well, who serve his creatures.
- Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
- Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
- Those who think they have only a very small talent, are often most tempted not to trade with it for their Lord.
- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- To be doing good is man’s most glorious task.
- To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
- To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
- To know you are useful, and realize that you are needed, is a great stimulus to growth.
- To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart.
- [U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
- Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.
- We all can't be heroes, for someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
- We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly.
- We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.
- We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
- We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.
- We are never more like God than when we are doing good.
- We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.
- We are not born for ourselves alone.
- We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
- We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. If you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.
- We are working to help people become better people; then this will become a better world.
- We can do more good by being good than in any other way.
- We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
- We cannot afford to be anchorites. There is no such thing as being happy ourselves unless we make others happy.
- We ought not weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
- We rise by lifting others.
- We should. do good whenever we can, and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
- We should study the interests of others as our own, and be careful to act on all occasions with uprightness and loyalty.
- What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
- What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
- What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.
- What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out.
- When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
- When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
- When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.