Serving Quotes - Page 5

• One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the way even in times of haste. One should act according to the way even in times of danger. It says further: 'When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.'

  Takeda Nobushige

  War, Haste, Way

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• I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.

  Grace Hopper

  Military, Grateful, Awards

  Chips (Department of the Navy information technology magazine), October 1986.

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• The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Badass, Bad Ass, Design

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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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• Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling of immediate familiarity that rushed between us. The moment I clapped eyes on them I felt like I already owned them. I could only suppose that we were together in a former life. That they were my shoes when I was a serving maid in medieval Britain or when I was a princess in ancient Egypt. Or perhaps they were the princess and I was the shoes. Who's to know? Either way I knew that we were meant to be together.

  Marian Keyes

  Nice, Princess, Eye

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• Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

  Edwin Muir

  Patience, Time, Kindness

  1949 The Labyrinth,'The Good Town'.

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• Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?

  Emily Bronte

  Time, Lasts, Cold

  Emily Brontë, “Remembrance”

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• Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honour and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance.

  Richard J. Foster

  Mean, Pride, Discipline

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• Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.

  Walter E. Williams

  Men, People, Fellow Man

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• Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, "What difference do you make?" but "What do you have in common?" It is not "excelling" but "serving" that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Healing, Mean

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• The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Garden, Self

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, 1999.

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• In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the end those incredulous to what you put up with to help, no longer matter. It's not between you and those snobs, but with whom you have given your hand to lift, and of course to God who Is watching and noting it in your book.

  Mother Teresa

  Book, Curves, Hands

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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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• 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'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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• 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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• You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don’t edge others out, you don’t demand your rights, and you aren’t self-serving when you’re surrendered.

  Rick Warren

  Heart, Rights, Self

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• Why else is politics the perfect refuge for every liar, cheat, and self-serving toad that was ever born? All you need is a good set of teeth and the ability to smile convincingly with them. --Cressida

  Stuart Hill

  Liars, Self, Perfect

  Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #3: Last Battle of the Icemark”, p.215, Scholastic Inc.

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• Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we’re on our knees but while we’re on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us. Selfless acts of service and consecration refine our spirits remove the scales from our spiritual eyes and open the windows of heaven. By becoming the answer to someone’s prayer we often find the answer to our own.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spiritual, Prayer, Eye

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• Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

  Libba Bray

  School, Skills, Feet

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill of others. Nothing more.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fog, Self, Skills

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.67, Penguin

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• people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain

  Rumi

  Pain, People, Want

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• Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

  Tony Dungy

  Jesus, Son, Men

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.44, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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