Top 100 Serving Life Quotes
#1. 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
#2. No time like the immediate, for tomorrow we may be dead, serving life and God's people no longer. It's in now we must take action to become the heroes of the morn'.
E.J. Squires
#3. When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner
#4. I've never had knickers or marriage proposals. Most of my fans are blokes serving life in jail, troubled kids, and a lot of gay guys. I never get the mid-20s, beautiful women fanbase.
Kelvin Fletcher
#5. President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving life sentences. It marks the first time someone has said 'Thanks Obama' but actually meant it.
Jimmy Fallon
#6. What is done unto people is also being done unto God
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#7. 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
#8. You become a candidate for God's love when you are rejected by people
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#9. Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself
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#11. 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
#12. 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
#14. 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
#18. The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you
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#19. Direct your attention to men and find ways to put smiles on their faces
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#21. Life is like a tennis game. You can't win without serving.
Arthur Ashe
#23. The first thing to do after you get fired is to discover God
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#24. Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people.
Ian Desabrais
#25. Don't let the tide of life shift you away, move intentionally in the right direction
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#27. The proof of your love for God is seen in your service to men
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#28. Beauty, Olympia has come to understand, has incapacitated her mother and ruined her life, for it has made her dependent upon people who are desirous of seeing her and of serving her.
Anita Shreve
#30. Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
Deepak Chopra
#31. I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.
George J. Mitchell
#33. It is only when you pay attention to ordinary people that you convince God that you are really serving Him
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#34. I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.
Kevin Cramer
#35. I learned that to find meaning in life, you can't separate yourself from serving people and giving your life to them.
Felix Muruchi
#36. Then come. Let me send you to see if you have lived your life serving a deity or a dream.
Shaun Hick
#37. A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of fruits and nuts for fuel. I'm completely addicted to coconut water for the electrolytes and hydration.
Michelle Forbes
#38. Food is art, I believe. If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way.
Bryan Fuller
#39. You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose
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#40. When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's
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#41. You need to combine your calling with your passion
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#43. Living for your purpose is equivalent to living for the Kingdom of God
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#44. If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process.
John Stahl-Wert
#45. You cannot reach God until you begin to pay attention to humans
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#46. Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
Paulo Coelho
#47. The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.
Thaksin Shinawatra
#49. The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
Arthur Middleton
#50. The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
Therese Of Lisieux
#51. But to this Orc-work such a life as we lead has brought us. Lawless and fruitless all our deeds have been, serving only ourselves, and feeding hate in our hearts.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#52. Never abandon your calling or go outside your purpose
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#53. Living on purpose and serving a higher purpose breathes life into you every day and gives you the desire to reach your goals. You need to live each day congruently by living within your beliefs and values. Unleashing your inspired life starts with living your life's purpose.
Thomas Narofsky
#54. I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.
Vincent Piazza
#55. You cannot fulfill your mandate without fulfilling your purpose and calling in life
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#56. You dig deep beyond those scars and find that soft tissue again, and you massage and nurture it and bring it to life, little by little, through serving yourself well. I did it through hikes and vitamins and therapy and prayer and good friends.
Katy Perry
#57. Never disregard people, regardless of their beliefs, because we all carry God's likeness
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#59. It's been said that everything rises and falls on leadership, and the best type of leader, is a servant leader. For me, my life as a kingmaker includes serving
Cary Hokama
#60. Employment wastes the productive time of our lives
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#61. Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life.
Annie Besant
#62. A life without increase, production and multiplication is a wasted one
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#64. God will not come from Heaven to help us, but He'll use the people around us for that
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#65. You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.
Myles Munroe
#66. Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.
Sue Mallory
#67. Don't exert all your energy on employment, locate your purpose
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#68. Man is not made for the Sabbath. Rather, the Sabbath is made for man
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#69. You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#71. Don't waste time on employment, discover yourself today
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#73. The real service to God is when it involves people in need
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#75. As believers, we each have a different essence of existence
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#76. Helping, serving, caring, and sharing are my missions and passions.
Debasish Mridha
#77. I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there's a mixture of both in there. It's just I think that's a little more true to life. It's not always purely one way or the other.
Lisa Kudrow
#79. Your calling is buried in your background on earth
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#80. You cannot have a cordial relationship with God when you reject people
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#83. We give them material things and take delight in their delight in possessions. Then we hope that somewhere down the line they will see that a life worth living is found only in knowing and serving God.
Tedd Tripp
#84. You get answers and solutions to your problems when you begin to notice God
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#85. A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
Cornel West
#86. Religion should lay more emphasis on our relationship with people
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#87. Our legacy is not found in all the 'stuff' we've accumulated on our life's journey. It's written in the memories of those whose lives we've touched along the way.
Justin Young
#88. It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life - be she a genteel lady or a serving girl - might find a happier home within the pages of a book.
Tessa Dare
#89. Life is not meaningful ... unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#93. Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.
Richard Baxter
#94. You can be a small element in a corporate system serving your boss all your life and you will retire unsatisfied with your way of living
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#97. Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.
Robert H. Jackson
#98. Don't waste your youthful and active days on employment
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#100. Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.
Bill Courtney
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