Quotes About Service

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

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

Only a life lived for others is worth living.

The Master of Life's been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play.

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own path.

In the end nobody will remember you for what you did for yourself they'll remember you for what you did for others.

Your life purpose is to use your own personal transformation to help transform society. Once mentored by another, you will now mentor others.

Life is more enjoyable when you focus your attention on helping others than reflecting on your own problems.