Quotes About Service

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world...Thomas Jefferson was a great leader of men because he understood and interpreted the spirits of men.

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.

We are all on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I can't imagine.

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.

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We are not called to be successful in accordance with ordinary standards, but in accordance with a corn of wheat falling into the ground and dying, becoming in that way what it never could be if it were to abide alone.

the Y.M.C.A. had a deeper motive than mere social service. Its three-fold emphasis of Body, Mind, and Spirit was centered on bringing men to a personal faith in Jesus Christ.

We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.

the best way to achieve happiness for oneself is to give happiness to others.

she carries with her an almost-tangible expectation that your own deepest wish, like hers, is to serve a greater purpose.

If you help people lead more positive lives that benefit others as well as themselves, this is a good thing. Very good thing. The danger is that self-development can lead us to more self-cherishing, self-absorption, self-infatuation. And these are not true causes of happiness but the opposite.

Eudemonia, on the other hand, is the happiness we get from what we give to the world.

the most fulfilled and purposeful people are those who have turned their abilities to a cause that's greater than themselves.

doing small acts with great love is our most precious gift, and not only for those we are helping. It is a wonderful paradox that when we help others, we, ourselves, are the first to benefit.

May my every action of body, speech, and mind today be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.