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Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
A man who views the world the same at fifty
as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali (world champion boxer)
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
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
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world.
Visualize your light radiating throughout the world,
passing from person to person until it encircles the globe.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
I try to give to the poor people for love
what the rich could get for money.
No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds;
yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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