Quotes About Service

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for any fellow being, let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained and efficient forces.

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.

I was hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: I was naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

The principle was right there-you couldn't miss it. The more you did for your customers, the more they did for us.

What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?

You can never expect too much of yourself in the matter of giving yourself to others.

Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

To devote a portion of one's leisure to doing something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us.

Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed ... I have often tried this method, and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.

When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.