Quotes About Service

Los triunfos y el estrellato no necesariamente conducen a la felicidad. Ser el mejor en realidad significa saber qué es lo que Dios quiere para nuestra vida y servirle en ese lugar para dar lo mejor de uno. La meta entonces es descubrir los hilos que Dios tiene preparados para nosotros y seguir su plan para nuestra vida con excelencia

Nunca podremos ser como Dios, pero sí podemos concluir la tarea que nos ha asignado.

Debes saber que eres el templo de Dios. Vive inmerso en la oración. Vive tu vida con humildad de espíritu y sirve por motivos rectos. Procura el consejo y el ejemplo de hombres y mujeres consagrados. Por último, reconoce la preeminencia de Cristo en todo. Esos

From then on, my longings, my hopes, my dreams and my every effort has been to live for Him, who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.

A heart that truly worships is a heart that gives its best to God in time and substance.

Evangelism as a Lifestyle, Jim Petersen

Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people" (Hebrews 2:17).

But no one with a will to the service of others would permit himself such an escape. The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others." One of the many distinctions between the celebrity and the hero, he said, is that one lives only for self while the other acts to redeem society.

El yogui hindú, luchando por la liberación, se identifica con la Luz y nunca regresa. Pero nadie con la voluntad de servir a otros se permitiría semejante evasión. El objetivo último de la hazaña no debe ser ni la liberación ni la felicidad personales, sino la sabiduría y el poder para servir a los demás».

The hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

Generosity, morality, respect, service, listening to the Dharma, and meditation—these are actions for the good. Each one is a practice that can be cultivated and further refined, becoming the causes for our own happiness and the happiness of others.

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

Colonel Cathcart had courage and never hesitated to volunteer his men for any target available.

You know why God invented Golf?' Service asked the ME, who shrugged. 'To keep assholes off trout streams.

Having now finished the work assigned me, Washington solemnly said, I retire from the great theatre of Action....I here offer my Commission, and take leave of all the enjoyments of public life. The man who had known how to stay the course now showed that he also understood how to leave it. Horses were waiting at the door immediately after Washington read his statement. The crowd gathered at the doorway to wave him off. It was the greatest exit in American history.

One-year enlistment had proven problematic since the troops were scheduled to rotate out of the army just when they had begun to internalize the discipline of military service and became reliable soldiers.

Having now finished the work assigned me," Washington solemnly said, "I retire from the great theatre of Action. . . . I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the enjoyments of public life." The man who had known how to stay the course now showed that he also understood how to leave it. Horses were waiting at the door immediately after Washington read his statement. The crowd gathered at the doorway to wave him off. It was the greatest exit in American history.

Wealth is your idea, desire, talent, urge for service, capacity to give to mankind, your ability for usefulness to society, and your love for humanity in general.

He that is greatest among you, let him become your servant. There is a great contrast in this attitude of mind in comparison to that of the man who only wants to make a living or just get by. Getting by is not true success. Man's motive must be greater, nobler, and more altruistic. He must serve others, thereby casting his bread upon the waters

On the Rebbe's willingness to offer opinions and advice on a large range of issues, including theology, business, family affairs, and even medical questions: "[First] I am not afraid to answer that I don't know. If I know, then I have no right not to answer. When someone comes to you for help and you can help him to the best of your knowledge, and you refuse him this help, you become a cause of his suffering.

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.

As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted and obtuse among the citizenry

My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.