Service Was Joy Quotes

#1. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. Remember this quote: "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I woke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold service was joy." ~R. Tagore

John Franklin Graham

#3. As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#4. Real joy, the kind that permeates your life and brings contentment to your soul comes from service. So no, happiness is not the word. Purpose. Contentment. Joy. To find those things, don't seek happiness. Search instead for those who need your gift and give it away.

Mia Sheridan

#5. Joy is often an outgrowth not simply of following our vocation in life, but of helping those in need and of loving one another. So joy is not a selfish thing to seek, but a selfless thing to find.

James Martin

#6. I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.

Audre Lorde

#7. Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. We volunteer to work for the love and joy of service.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Life is for happiness, and joy and service to the humanity gives you greatest joy.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call "service to God." God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God.

Sathya Sai Baba

#11. Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.

Thomas S. Monson

#12. Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people's successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#13. 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.

Bryant McGill

#14. President Obama has appointed a new head of the Secret Service. The new Secret Service director was so excited that he jumped over the White House fence for joy.

Conan O'Brien

#15. 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.

Kahlil Gibran

#16. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden. Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His people (Mt 13:44)(Jn 15:8).

Francis Chan

#18. When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward, there comes a real, genuine joy into the human heart.

Heber J. Grant

#19. Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.

Barbara Bush

#20. Wanting help, I reached out to serve. Seeking happiness, I smiled and offered comfort. Yearning for love, I showed love. And now I understand. My life was never about me, it was always about you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. The service [Jesus] gave to humanity was given even when we least merited that sacrifice. There is a joy in service that transcends emotional temporariness.

Ravi Zacharias

#22. Take with you the joy of Easter to the home, and make that home bright with more unselfish love, more hearty service ...

John Ellerton

#23. I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."

Tony Robbins

#24. Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.

Richard Salter Storrs

#25. What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#26. The key is love, the action is service, and the joy is knowing the grandeur that is God in us and in everything.

Dorothy Maclean

#27. Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.

Laurence Boldt

#28. 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.

Rajneesh

#29. When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. Service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves.

Seth Adam Smith

#32. Service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact.

Lilian Whiting

#33. You can not have significance in this life if it is all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life through service and sacrifice - it's pure and simple.

Paul Tudor Jones

#34. Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service.

Lucy Liu

#35. May your heart open.
May joy emerge.
May love flow through you.
May you heal and help others.

Charlene Costanzo

#36. This, then, is true liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At the same time, it is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept.

Augustine Of Hippo

#37. They were always cold, and usually hungry as well. Only Boxer and Clover never lost heart. Squealer made excellent speeches on the joy of service and the dignity of labor, but the other animals found more inspiration in Boxer's strength and his never-failing cry of I will work harder!

George Orwell

#38. Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness, goodness, and faith.

Merrill J. Bateman

#39. My joy knows no bounds ... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

Olusegun Obasanjo

#40. Keep the commandments of God. If you have sinned, the sooner you begin to make your way back, the sooner you will find the sweet peace and joy that come with the miracle of forgiveness. Happiness comes from living the way the Lord wants you to live and from service to God and others.

Thomas S. Monson