Serving Others Quotes - Page 6

• Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.

  William C. Menninger

  Inspirational, Success, Integrity

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• There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

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

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• If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Selfish, Character

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.50, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

  Mother Teresa

  Home, Compassion, Forgiving

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

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• It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion - these were the things that counted in life. When you gave purely, the honor in giving, and that was honor enough.

  Scott O'Grady

  Commitment, Volunteer, Giving

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• When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.

  Joel Osteen

  Christmas, Giving Up, Spirit

  "Interview: Joel and Victoria Osteen on Christmas, Stewardship". Interview with Josephine Vivaldo, www.christianpost.com. November 16, 2010.

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• Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Thinking, Compassion

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• One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what if one began with oneself?

  Andre Suares

  People, Humanity, Being Different

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• Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that showed up before they were in public life? And have they held onto that passion throughout their life, regardless of whether they were in office or not, succeeding or failing. Hillary Clinton has that passion, from a time as a kid in a methodist youth group in the suburbs of Chicago, she has been focused on serving others with a special focus on empowering families and kids.

  Tim Kaine

  Kids, Passion, Office

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging.

  Reggie McNeal

  Serving, Belonging

  Reggie McNeal (2013). “Get Off Your Donkey!: Help Somebody and Help Yourself”, p.44, Baker Books

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• Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Heart, Hunger For Love

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

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• Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

  Felix Adler

  God, Religious, Real

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• [I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

  Danah Zohar

  Volunteer, Agents, World

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• I strongly believe that nothing is more spiritual than living at our highest potential while serving others. I believe that the more closely aligned we are to "spirit" the more fully we will give ourselves in service to the world. As such, my "spiritual path" is the path that leads me to a more complete manifestation of my unique Bodhisattvic duties.

  Brian Johnson

  Spiritual, Believe, Unique

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• Everyone is my teacher. Some I seek. Some I subconsciously attract. Often I learn simply by observing others. Some may be completely unaware that I’m learning from them, yet I bow deeply in gratitude.

  Eric Allen

  Inspirational, Teacher, Gratitude

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• While serving others, we are most likely to plead for the companionship of the Holy Ghost. Success in the Lord’s service always produces miracles beyond our own powers.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Miracle, Ghost, Companionship

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• As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for humankind are all of a family. As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Letting Go, Kindness, Office

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• The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Love Is, Saint, Tests

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.85, Macmillan

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• You are in the business of serving other people as you stand in the service of your destiny and express yourself through your work.

  Michael Port

  Destiny, People, Express Yourself

  Michael Port (2006). “Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling”, p.94, John Wiley & Sons

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• It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others.

  Eve Ensler

  Attention, Fixing, Seems

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• Total openness to serving others is our hallmark, it alone is our title of honour!

  Pope Francis

  Honor, Titles, Hallmark

  Pope Francis' homily to the Holy Mass with the new Cardinals at Vatican Basilica, w2.vatican.va. February 15, 2015.

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• Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Flower, College, Garden

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• Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

  Francis of Assisi

  Blessed, Men, People

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• Freely we serve, because freely we love.

  John Milton

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 538

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• When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.

  Joanne Woodward

  Christmas, Giving Up, Vivid

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