Quotes About Service For Others

#1. [Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships. - Author: Ayn Rand

#2. Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others. - Author: Sathya Sai Baba

#3. Dissect your motives deeper! You will find that no one has ever done anything wholly for others. All actions are self-directed, all service is self-serving, all love self-loving. - Author: Irvin D. Yalom

#4. May our gratitude find expression in our prayers and our service for others, and in our commitment to live wholly for Christ. - Author: Billy Graham

#5. My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent,
renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - good to themselves and the country at large - Author: Swami Vivekananda

#6. The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living ... and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life
service for others. - Author: Edward Bok

#7. Many roads open pathways to authenticity. For some it is disciplined practice, for others revelation, for others service. Regardless of how we get in touch with authenticity or how authenticity gets in touch with us, the engagement is ongoing and forever challenging. - Author: Rob Terry

#8. I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet. - Author: Tony Curtis

#9. The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves. - Author: Horace Mann

#10. I have fun. I enjoy my life. And I was hardwired for a deep connection between service, God, and happiness. You kind of need all of those things to be in play for one to have the others. - Author: Will Smith

#11. Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done. - Author: Elisabeth Elliot

#12. The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth. - Author: Muhammad Ali

#13. You live not only for yourself but for others. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. We should put in place a simple, straightforward and accessible way for parents of Dreamers and others with a history of service and contributions to their community to make their case and to be eligible for the same deferred action as their children. - Author: Hillary Clinton

#15. Each of us has the power to take action, to light a fire and be the ignition for others. - Author: Jim Ziolkowski

#16. Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others. Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service. - Author: Sathya Sai Baba

#17. A COnNeCtworker is a networker who is always taking into account the needs of others. Approaching people with a service attitude to bring them value and build a relationship. Then when that person is looking for a reliable service provider in a particular industry, they will pick the COnNeCtworker. - Author: Michele Jennae

#18. If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives - and you always stay focused on that service - the financial success will follow. - Author: Brendon Burchard

#19. Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. - Author: Booker T. Washington

#20. Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you. - Author: Steve Maraboli

#21. The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation. - Author: Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#22. Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life. - Author: John Piper

#23. Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it is what we give in charity that nurtures our souls. If time is not available daily, reserve at least a few hours every week for some worthwhile act of charity. - Author: Mata Amritanandamayi

#24. There is no such thing as finding true happiness by searching for it directly. It must come, if it come at all, indirectly, or by the service, the love, and the happiness we give to others. - Author: Ralph Waldo Trine

#25. No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist. - Author: Calvin Coolidge

#26. The proof of true love for God is in service to others. - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#27. A St. Louis oncology nurse quoted Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl to States News Service in 2012: " 'What is to give light must endure burning.' I think people who care for others understand. Caregiving is painful. - Author: Alexandra Robbins

#28. I follow three rules: find the opportunity to love and love endlessly, be kind to all and rude to none, and serve others with care and know that service is joy. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#29. The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service. - Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#30. Now they will go back to their lives. Some will curse us, some will look forward to serve, and others will look to us for entertainment. We will not disappoint any of them, Brent. They don't need us, but we surely need them. - Author: Kenneth Eade

#31. I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit. - Author: Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. Service to others is the rent yo pay for your room here on earth. - Author: Ali Mohammad

#33. The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service. - Author: Mark Caine

#34. The life of Jesus is a life for others. It is a life of service. - Author: Pope Francis

#35. Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of others. So it's not just about sitting and cultivating caring mindfulness. It's building up a way of being and then using it for the service of others. - Author: Matthieu Ricard

#36. How could anyone be so stupid as to trust a trader? The best thing I could do was pretend to others at Salomon that I had meant to screw the customer. People would respect that. That was called jamming. I had just jammed bonds, albeit unknowingly, for the first time. I had lost my innocence. - Author: Michael Lewis

#37. Why must we cling to those who walk away instead of granting freedom? We must give the same liberty God gives to prodigals-an ability to let them go-or we'll be perennially bound to others for our happiness and effective service. - Author: Mary E. DeMuth

#38. The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve." - Author: Wilfred Grenfell

#39. Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides. - Author: George H. W. Bush

#40. Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way. - Author: Luther Burbank

#41. We have a fundamental imperative in our lives to matter to others, to serve others, and to support each other in mattering more. - Author: Tom Hayes

#42. Being of service to others is the price we should pay as a form of gratitude for the gift of life."
~Elissa Gabrielle - Author: Elissa Gabrielle

#43. We know that service is indispensable for bringing us close to the Savior and letting us feel his Spirit. In nothing do we resemble the Savior more than in serving others. So in nothing should we feel greater love and joy than in service. - Author: Chieko N. Okazaki

#44. Focus not on who you are, but on what you can do for others. - Author: Ron Kaufman

#45. The only service to be done for our downtrodden sisters and brother, is to give them education to develop their individuality. We must give them ideas, alongside cultivating their living conditions. - Author: Abhijit Naskar

#46. Life is easier lived when lived for others. - Author: Chris Matakas

#47. Grant me courage to serve others;
For in service there is true life. - Author: Cesar Chavez

#48. Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others. Even if it's done mainly for show, it's still a start. - Author: John Cleese

#49. She knew his secret: for all his wandering, his independence and his unorthodox ways, he took his responsibilities very seriously. He even borrowed others' responsibilities, making them his own simply because he thought this sort of service was owed to those whom he loved. - Author: Meredith Duran

#50. Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself. - Author: Duane Elmer

#51. Life is always easier when lived for others, and living for others is the best way I know to live for yourself. - Author: Chris Matakas

#52. I hope the day will never come when the church abandons the "class meeting" and the prayer service ... The old-fashioned "testimony" meeting should be revived, for through this medium we can share with others our faith and triumphs as well as our needs and mistakes. - Author: Billy Graham

#53. This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal. - Author: Joshua Chamberlain

#54. Joy arises only in creating joy for others; there is no other way. The more people you can make happy, the more you will feel happy. This is the real meaning of service. - Author: Rajneesh

#55. Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence. - Author: Stephen Covey

#56. If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind/body/ego. - Author: Wayne Dyer

#57. The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. - Author: Barack Obama

#58. We have no need to learn to think much of ourselves, to care for ourselves, to consider our own needs, wants, and desires. We already do that far too much. The problem is getting us to think of others, to have a lowliness of mind that springs from humility and love. - Author: Nancy Wilson

#59. 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. - Author: Gordon B. Hinckley

#60. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others. - Author: Pope Francis

#61. The old age of women is bearable only on condition that they do not take up any room, do not make any noise, do not demand any service; on condition that they render all the service that is expected of them, and actually have no existence except for the good of others. - Author: Suzanne Curchod

#62. Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity and fear of others. Never decide to do nothing just because you can only do little. Do what you can. You would be surprised at what "little" acts have done for our world. - Author: Steve Maraboli

#63. Single-minded and joyous devotion to God and his will, to what God wants for us-and to service to him and to others because of him-is what the will transformed into Christliheness looks like. - Author: Dallas Willard

#64. Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others. - Author: Bryant McGill

#65. I'm a simple small 'c' conservative who believes in public service, serving others, and doing a good job for my country. - Author: David Cameron

#66. We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#67. The Church is the Church only when it exists for others ... not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others. - Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#68. Nobody loves a good worship service more than I do, but we are called to make religion real, to make our faith come alive. Helping others have a decent place to live is one way to do that and it doesn't take too long for others to recognize it, too. - Author: Millard Fuller

#69. For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. - Author: Queen Elizabeth II

#70. The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others. - Author: Bryant McGill

#71. More young people are volunteering than ever before. More people are including service to others on their busy lives' to do list. The promise of America is embedded deep in our DNA, calling us to a much less shallow search for happiness and meaning. - Author: Arianna Huffington

#72. Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life. - Author: Caroline Myss

#73. When you search for happiness, it flies away.
When you serve others, you will find the way.
When you share blessings and express kindness,
You will find the source of enduring happiness. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#74. For an illuminated life, give yourself up for the service of others. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#75. It is not enough just to be good. We must be good for something. We must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for our presence. And the good that is in us must be spread to others. This is the measure of our civility. - Author: Gordon B. Hinckley

#76. The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world. - Author: Charles William Eliot

#77. To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin. - Author: Orrin Woodward

#78. Empathy is a quality today that we need more than ever. Throughout his life Jesus showed empathy and care for others on a level never seen before. From him we learn that Gods ways of service to others before obsession with self is the path he wants us to walk on and deep down we know it. - Author: Tim Crawshaw

#79. What is your passion? What stirs your soul and makes you feel like you're totally in harmony with why you showed up here in the first place? Know this for certain: Whatever it may be, you can make a living doing it and simultaneously provide a service for others. I guarantee - Author: Wayne W. Dyer

#80. Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others. - Author: Criss Jami

#81. One of the great underlying principles governing our life is service. Most of us have to work, but do we serve? Do we work in a spirit of service? Do we work for Life and our fellows? Or do we merely work for self, in order to make a living? - Author: Henry Thomas Hamblin

#82. The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans. - Author: John F. Kerry

#83. Hold all men in mind as being healthy, happy, and prosperous. When you do this you are helping others and sowing good for yourself. Always send out thoughts of love and service. They will come back to you laden with their kind. - Author: Venice J. Bloodworth

#84. Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth. - Author: Manoj Bhargava

#85. The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth. - Author: Wilfred Grenfell

#86. I am acutely aware that all I have been able to achieve has been in large part due to circumstances outside my control. This is why I teach, and this is why I write. I want to be one of those opportunities for others. Perhaps this is the true measure of success. - Author: Chris Matakas