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Quotes About Service

Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
~ B.R. Ambedkar
Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.
~ O. J. Brigance
The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
~ Jonathan Sacks
When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.
~ Jean Vanier
If we can look upon our work not for self-benefit,but as a means to benefit society,we will be practicing appreciation and patience in our daily lives.
~ Gautama Buddha
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
el amor implica el impulso de proteger, de nutrir, de dar refugio, y también de acariciar y mimar, o de proteger celosamente, cercar, encarcelar. Amar significa estar al servicio, estar a disposición, esperando órdenes, pero también puede significar la expropiación y confiscación de toda responsabilidad. Dominio a través de la entrega, sacrificio que paga con engrandecimiento.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
In the Buddhist view, the king served the people; in the Hindu view, the people served the king. However
~ Abraham Eraly
For the pious person, destiny means not simply to accomplish, but to contribute.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
As long as man sees religion as a source of satisfaction for his own needs, it is not God whom he serves but his own self.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
But the meaning is to walk in the ways of the Lord. As He clothes the naked so do thou also clothe the naked; as He visited the sick, so do thou also visit the sick; as he comforted mourners, so do Thou also comfort mourners" (Sotah 14a).
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
He is in need of the work of man for the fulfillment of His ends in the world.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
~ Abraham Lincoln
THAT FROM THESE HONORED DEAD WE TAKE INCREASED DEVOTION TO THAT CAUSE FOR WHICH THEY GAVE THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION;...
~ Abraham Lincoln
It is a very poor thing, whether for nations or individuals, to advance the history of great deeds done in the past as an excuse for doing poorly in the present; but it is an excellent thing to study the history of the great deeds of the past, and of the great men who did them, with an earnest desire to profit thereby so as to render better service in the present.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my best each and every day.
~ Abraham Lincoln