Top 100 Quotes About Joy In Serving Others
#1. I think those who choose to find joy in serving others, those who choose to find their voice, to pursue their vocation and to act on their vision oftentimes have to sacrifice much.It's almost like a crucifixion in terms of the cross you have to bear.
Cornel West
#2. I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.
Michael Eric Dyson
#3. I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you're in a hurry,just eat your sandwich and go. Don't even start cooking, because you can't do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.
Leah Chase
#5. What is done unto people is also being done unto God
Sunday Adelaja
#6. The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.
Abraham Kuyper
#7. Delaware River Power Squadron is dedicated to boating safety through education and civic activities in several locations in Philadelphia while also serving the boating public throughout southern Pennsylvania, the Delaware River, and the Chesapeake Bay.
Robert Brady
#8. If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.
G. Campbell Morgan
#9. You become a candidate for God's love when you are rejected by people
Sunday Adelaja
#10. Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself
Sunday Adelaja
#11. My heart has always been truly convinced that in serving the cause of America, I am fighting for the interests of France.
Marquis De Lafayette
#12. We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits.
Chris Matakas
#13. Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.
Omer Bartov
#15. I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.
Joyce Banda
#16. An algorithm of infinite symmetry, life serving death by expanding its bounty, furthering its reach. Did the perpetrators appreciate their satire? Yes, it was practical, indignity as revenge, but for what?
Philip Schultz
#17. And if redemption was self-serving, coming as it did ribbon-tied to what he wanted most in life? For once, Akiva's shame wouldn't rise to the bait. He wanted what he'd always wanted, and he'd better just say it, his own worries and fears be damned.
Laini Taylor
#18. She's my mate; that makes her mine. Forgetting that will see your neck no longer serving its purpose." "I love it when you talk dirty," she purred. "Give my regards to Lindsay.
Sylvia Day
#19. All that is base in the masses is temporary, no doubt serving only to prevent evolution (that of the elite, as well) from proceeding too quickly and thus not becoming 'reality.'
Piet Mondrian
#20. You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice.
Billy Graham
#21. Work is not a curse of God but one of the benefits of living on this earth. Finding the work you love is not a self-serving goal; it is a required component of fulfilling your true calling.
Dan Miller
#22. In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a press is true because it is revolutionary; it will be revolutionary only if it is true, and never otherwise.
Albert Camus
#23. The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.
Neal A. Maxwell
#24. I think the serving size of ice cream is when you hear the spoon hit the bottom of the container.
Brian Regan
#26. If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving.
Susan Sarandon
#27. If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.
Mitt Romney
#29. When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation.
Laozi
#31. On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
#32. Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
Oscar Wilde
#33. We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.
Diane Watson
#34. The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed, she is so kind hearted that she can't look at the blood, but enjoys serving the calf up with sauce
Leo Tolstoy
#35. When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script.
Kelly Marcel
#36. Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?
Dorothy Norman
#37. So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.
Kathy Freston
#38. The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the difference between life and death. In many ways, I liken their reactions to the way I felt while serving in Iraq.
Pete Hegseth
#40. We are not denying that Turkey has a right to defend itself from extremists but some of its actions are not serving any democratic purpose in Turkey or in Iraq. This will not benefit the relations between the two countries.
Jalal Talabani
#41. If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#43. No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#44. [S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination.
Vladimir Nabokov
#45. For me, the only ego that needs serving in putting together a film is the story's, the ego of the story and it's the piece itself that you want to bring out the voice of the piece. You're really serving that and that's the thing that you have a basic understanding of.
Julia Ormond
#46. 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
#48. You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.
Lakhdar Brahimi
#49. I'm a simple small 'c' conservative who believes in public service, serving others, and doing a good job for my country.
David Cameron
#50. Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.
Harry Truman
#51. There are people who were gay and lived the gay lifestyle and aren't anymore. I don't know if that's the similar situation or that's the case for anyone that's black. It's a behavioral issue as opposed to a color of the skin issue, and that's the diff for serving in the military.
Rick Santorum
#52. The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
Che Guevara
#53. The happiest people I know live lives that revolve around serving others, not themselves.
Tim Elmore
#54. Almost everyone nowadays is on the wrong track in their pursuit of
happiness. They think a great deal about having and receiving, about
outward show and success and being served by others. That is what most
people call fulfillment.
True fulfillment, though, lies in giving and serving.
Paulo Coelho
#56. I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.
Karl Malone
#57. The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you
Sunday Adelaja
#58. Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.
Marsha Blackburn
#59. Since the beginning, on the dry earth of this measureless land scraped to the bone, a few men ceaselessly made their way, possessing nothing but serving no one, the destitute and free lords of a strange kingdom.
Albert Camus
#60. Direct your attention to men and find ways to put smiles on their faces
Sunday Adelaja
#61. The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.
Andy Roddick
#62. We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God...
Gary Thomas
#64. Listening to gospel messages does not mean you are serving God
Sunday Adelaja
#65. Retailers should not be filling their minds with all the things that are wrong, with how the economy is going, or with trying to get someplace in the business world. They should enjoy being in this moment and in this day and serving the people who come in.
Wayne Dyer
#66. Banks can't recoup the costs of serving customers who save in small amounts and transact frequently.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#67. We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office ...
Mark Steyn
#68. Each day, a new crisis, a new massacre, a new threat of extinction, disease, internecine conflict, meteorological catastrophe... Behold man. Violent, self-serving and ruthless when in power; exploited, miserable and diseased when not.
Meg Rosoff
#69. The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.
Gore Vidal
#70. I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true.
Bernie Sanders
#71. Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
Arthur Ashe
#72. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you really don't want to smile at. Do it for Peace.
Mother Teresa
#73. It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.
Christina Engela
#75. Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.
Bob Ehrlich
#76. The first thing to do after you get fired is to discover God
Sunday Adelaja
#77. The person, who works for the sake of gaining money, is serving money.
Sunday Adelaja
#78. Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
Pope John Paul II
#79. The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.
Neil Cavuto
#80. Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people.
Ian Desabrais
#81. Don't let the tide of life shift you away, move intentionally in the right direction
Sunday Adelaja
#82. Respect is not fear and awe; it ... [is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.
Erich Fromm
#83. Sometimes writing a sentence can be harder than serving one.
James Magnuson
#84. Ethan, this is my favorite moment, before all of my other favorite moments are created with a new client. You are my work of art, mine to possess, sculpt, mend, bend, and make beg for mercy. You will adore worshiping, pleasing and serving me." ~ Mistress
Ruby Madden
#85. At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.
Bill De Blasio
#86. Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#87. If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
Charlie Munger
#88. I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
Bernadette Devlin
#89. Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them.
Will Davis Jr.
#91. What sticks with me now is not so much the pain and terror and sorrow of the war, though I remember that well enough. What really sticks with me is the honor I had of defending my country, and of serving in the company of these men.
R.V. Burgin
#92. When you discover your gift and authority, that gift attracts people. When people come to you, they are not really coming to you for you but for the gift and the vision that you are serving the humanity of your generation with.
Myles Munroe
#93. Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.
Paul Bettany
#94. On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.
Paul Goldberger
#95. I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause.
Joe Abercrombie
#96. But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.
Joshua
#97. If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work
Seth Godin
#98. The proof of your love for God is seen in your service to men
Sunday Adelaja
#99. I care for her about my mom like a Maggie (three Donalds per serving).
Jarod Kintz
#100. Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.
Dada Bhagwan
