Serving Others Quotes

• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

  Horace Mann

  Compassion, Helping Others, Help And Support

  "Thoughts" by Jessie K. Freeman and Sarah S. B. Yule, (p. 83), 1901.

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• No one has ever become poor by giving.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Morning, Kindness

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• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

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• The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspiring, Tired, Helping Others

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.65, Harmony

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• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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  Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

  Edmund Burke

  Life, Courage, Time

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• We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly.

  Luciano De Crescenzo

  Angel, Helping Others, Volunteer

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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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• The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mean, Love Is, Fire

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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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• 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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• Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Tree, Plant

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.238, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Effort, Humanity, Saint

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “African Addresses”

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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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• 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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• Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Inspirational, Lying, Generosity

  "Of The Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, People, Personality

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• If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

  John of the Cross

  Memories, Men, Saint

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• He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

  John of the Cross

  Opportunity, Men, Hands

  Saint John of the Cross (1966). “The collected works”

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