Selfless Service Quotes

• When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Selfish, Doubt, Selfless

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

  Douglas Adams

  Leadership, Money, Educational

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• In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Age, Selfishness, Selfless

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  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

  Inspirational, Commitment, Insperational

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• 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.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Self, Influence

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Greatness, Men, Giving

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• By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Prayer, Answers, Becoming

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• Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.

  Sai Baba

  Heart, Sleep, Selfless Giving

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• Spiritual strength frequently comes through selfless service.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Spiritual, Selfless, Spiritual Strength

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

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• Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Family

  Twitter post from Aug 01, 2015

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• I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Perspective, Deeds, Problem

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we’re on our knees but while we’re on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us. Selfless acts of service and consecration refine our spirits remove the scales from our spiritual eyes and open the windows of heaven. By becoming the answer to someone’s prayer we often find the answer to our own.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spiritual, Prayer, Eye

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• How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Aries, Self Discovery

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Selfless, Spirit

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• We should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Selfless, Quiet, Should

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• Purify the mind through selfless service.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Mind, Selfless

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• Selfless service to mankind makes you free in the world of mortals.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Generosity, Selfless, World

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• Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

  Nina Hagen

  Selfless Giving, Aggravation, People

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• One makes a gift of one's life and endeavors by sanctifying it with love, and devotion and selfless service. When seeking to uplift others, we are uplifted in the process. Every kind thought or smile therefore benefits oneself as well as all the world.

  David Hawkins

  Uplifting, Kind Thoughts, Benefits

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• The temple is a point of intersection between heaven and earth. In this sacred place, holy work will be performed through selfless service and love. The temple reminds [us] of all that is good and beautiful in the world.

  David A. Bednar

  Beautiful, Heaven, And Love

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• Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Prayer, Feet, Doe

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• Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You work for the years you will not see. You work for the Invisible all the time, but you work for the Eternal. So it is all worthwhile.

  Amy Carmichael

  Spiritual, Children, Years

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• Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Selfless, Mass, Ahimsa

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Miracles are everywhere to be found when priesthood callings are magnified. When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes. The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Selfish, Opportunity, Miracle

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