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Quotes About Service

I'm planning to," said Sejanus. "I'm planning to build a whole new beautiful life here. One where, in my own small way, I can make the world a better place.
~ Suzanne Collins
The Covey believe you're put on earth to reduce the misery, not add to it. Do you think the Hunger Games are right?" she asked.
~ Suzanne Collins
How many times would you do it, you think? How many times would you sacrifice yourself for good?" "Every time," I answer automatically.
~ Suzanne Young
First, establish nonpaying chores. These are the basic courtesies you all do for the benefit of the family.
~ Suze Orman
Women are valued to the degree that they serve the needs of men.
~ Suzette Haden Elgin
The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.
~ Swami Krishnananda
Many times a day the mountains change their colors, because the sun is at the service of these mountains.
~ Swami Rama
Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.
~ Swami Vivekananda
So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them!
~ Swami Vivekananda
Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.
~ Swami Vivekananda
If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine. . . .
~ Swami Vivekananda
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.
~ Swami Vivekananda
The mother and the father are the causes of this body; so a man must undergo a thousand troubles in order to do good to them.
~ Swami Vivekananda
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger
~ Swami Vivekananda
Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?
~ Swami Vivekananda
Serve man Serve god
~ Swami Vivekananda
Who can work without any attachment? That is the real question.
~ Swami Vivekananda
He works for work's sake. "Work for work's sake. Worship for worship's sake.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Work for work's sake. There are some who are really the salt of the earth in every country and who work for work's sake, who do not care for name, or fame, or even to go to heaven.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Only what is done as duty for duty's sake ... can scatter the bondage of Karma
~ Swami Vivekananda
This is the sage who always works for work's sake without caring for the results.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Don't do anything more for your body than you do for John.
~ Swami Vivekananda