Serving Others Quotes

• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Work, Grateful, Thinking

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• My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him, and not to spoil his work by our shortcomings.

  Isaac Jogues

  Faith, Inspiration, Giving

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• Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Helping Others, Greatness

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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• People are hungry for God. Do you see that? Quite often we look but do not see. We are all passing through this world. We need to open our eyes and see.

  Mother Teresa

  Eye, People, Catholic

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• One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Real, World, Action

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.214

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• It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Giving, Grease

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• Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.

  Maimonides

  Teaching, Men, Compassion

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• Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Men, Sorrow

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• My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Jobs, Dedication, People

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

  Mother Teresa

  Responsibility, Two, Saint

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• Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

  Mother Teresa

  Peace, Saint, Want

  "In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers".

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• If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.

  Helen Prejean

  People, Broken, Faithful

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• Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

  Saint Augustine

  Brother, Believe, Trying

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• God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

  John Henry Newman

  Saint, Missions, Committed

  John Henry Newman (2002). “Prayers, Verses, and Devotions”, p.338, Ignatius Press

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• So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long as there are sick, - I am weak, - So long as there is ignorance, - I must learn the truth, - So long as there is hate, - I must love, - So long as there is hunger, - I am famished. - Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Hate, Ignorance, Long

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• People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Wish, Saint

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• As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

  Mother Teresa

  Mean, Knowing, Suffering

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Saint, It Hurts

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• Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.

  Mother Teresa

  Home, Love Is, Saint

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• A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Leadership, Men, Able

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

  Anne Catherine Emmerich

  Heart, Men, Saint

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• The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.

  Saint Basil

  Lying, Gold, Saint

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• It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Saint, Needs, Our Love

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (1892*). “The Spiritual Conferences”, p.87, Aeterna Press

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• I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Trying, Saint, Demand

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