Quotes About Service

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

To live without duties is obscene.

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

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.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

To ask us to serve the nation is to ask chandan [sandalwood] to be fragrant.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

To perform one's duty is the greatest service to God.

Do your actions without caring for the result. Do not think that you are the doer. Dedicate the work to God. (p. 236)

it can be tempting to hoard knowledge, to use it as a way to gain advantage over others. But if we seek to serve our fellow man, we must spread the things we learn as far and wide as possible. To empower the downtrodden, we must put knowledge in their hands.

There's just nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.

Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.

The Great Commandment—to love—must come before the Great Commission—to do. "I've stepped back from the 'work' of ministry, and now I just play with my Daddy. The wonderful thing is that I'm seeing more fruit than ever! God is love. When His love is released, healing comes—healing of every

We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.

Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.

Focus on other people, not on yourself.

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

No Job Is Beneath You

When I was interviewing people to work for me, and I came upon a candidate who had been an Eagle Scout, I'd almost always try to hire him. I

I always liked telling my students: "Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.