Serving Others Quotes

• The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spiritual, Doe, Saint

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

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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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• Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world - that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me - is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Evil, Giving

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.

  Teresa of Avila

  Practice, Perfection, Saint

  Saint Teresa (of Avila), Kieran Kavanaugh, Otilio Rodriguez, Stephen J. Connor (1997). “The Wisdom of Teresa of Avila: Selections from the Interior Castle”, p.68, Paulist Press

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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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• Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

  Muhammad Ali

  Basketball, Kindness, Fighting

  Twitter post from May 26, 2010

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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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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• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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• True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

  Arthur Ashe

  Memorial Day, Courage, Hero

  "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.

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• There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

  Walter Reuther

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Helping Others

  Walter Reuther (1961). “Selected Papers”, New York : Macmillan

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• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Greatness, Compassion, Greed

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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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• 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 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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