Acts Of Service Quotes

• Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Kindness, Patriotic

  "Obama Weekly Address: President Calls On Americans To Rekindle 9/11 Unity". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2011.

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion
  or an inconsequential act of service.
  Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.

  Caroline Myss

  Healing, Simple, Compassion

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Invisible Acts of Power: The Divine Energy of a Giving Heart”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.

  Cory Booker

  Love Is, Small Acts, Battle

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• Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Small Acts, Bless, Lifts

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• Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.

  Rick Warren

  Opportunity, Small Acts, Great Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 07, 2013

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• When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.

  Justin Rosenstein

  Thinking, Humanity, Acts Of Love

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• By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Prayer, Answers, Becoming

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• I've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.

  Edward Norton

  Inspirational, People, Done

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• I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Perspective, Deeds, Problem

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• What are you doing for others?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Helping Others, Volunteer

  Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service.  They are the teachers whose names will never be in the newspaper, pastors who will never author a book, managers who will never be profiled in a magazine, artists whose work is buried in layers of collaboration, writers whose sphere of influence is a few dozen people who read their blogs.  But they are the army that makes things happen.  To them devotion is its own reward.  For them influence is a continual act of giving, nothing more complicated than that.

  Mel Lawrenz

  Teacher, Book, Army

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• Service is the rent we pay for living.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Helping Others, Pay, Volunteerism

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Encouragement, Small Acts, Telephones

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• Service is God. Why has God endowed man with a body, a mind and an intellect ? Feel with the mind, plan with the intelligence and use the body to serve those who are in need of service. Offer that act of service to God; worship home with that Flower.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Flower, Home, Men

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• Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become so strong they can seldom be broken. Ours is to place our areas of love in proper perspective. Meaningful love always works for our eternal progress and not against it.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Meaningful, Strong, Evil

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• Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Men, Comfort

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• I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Calling, Genuine, Sanctification

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• It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Encouragement, Simple, Giving

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• My beloved young friends, determine to serve one another. Opportunities for Christian acts of service do not always come at convenient times. Listen to the spirit when your flesh is weak. For truly the Master said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matt. 25:40). The blessings are tenfold when we do those good, kindly acts of Christian service when it is inopportune or not convenient.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  Friendship, Christian, Blessing

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• Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page in the Gospels-the parables, the sermons, and the countless acts of service by our Lord Himself. The ideal is not limited to any particular kind of service, nor a given quantity of service. The ideal is accepting life itself as a trust to be used in the welfare of mankind. It is a life that is glad for the chance to be of any help, an attitude that 'service is the rent we pay for our own room on earth.' (Lord Halifax)

  Obert C. Tanner

  Attitude, Rooms, Earth

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• You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

  Anthony de Mello

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 114, 1992.

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