Serving Others Quotes - Page 3

• It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

  Bill Cosby

  Bible, Jesus, Blessed

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• Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivation, Helping Others, Community

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• The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Exercise, Saint, Virtue

  Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “Letters to Persons in the World”, p.24, Aeterna Press

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• To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Humble, Helping Others

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• There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Saint, Bigs

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.43, New World Library

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• Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

  Helen Keller

  Pain, Believe, Helping Others

  "We Bereaved". Book by Helen Keller, 1929.

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• As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Mean, Long, Doe

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  Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Death, Badass

  Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1838). “Annual Report, Together with the Report of the Secretary of the Board: (1837-1841)”

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• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Service is the rent we pay for living.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Helping Others, Pay, Volunteerism

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• You only need a heart full of grace

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Greatness, Helping Others

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.222, Beacon Press

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• An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Greatness, Diversity

  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.18, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  College, Helping Others, Greatness

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• What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Ocean, Understanding, Saint

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• You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

  John Bunyan

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

  Dick Gregory

  Happiness, Helping Others, People

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• Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "Women of Faith and Spirit: Their Words & Thoughts". Book edited by Dayna Beilenson and Mary Alice Warner, p. 42, 1987.

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• Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Christ's Second Coming Fulfilled". Book by Marion Morris, 1917.

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• I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Trying, Saint, Demand

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• If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.

  Helen Prejean

  People, Broken, Faithful

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• The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.

  Saint Basil

  Lying, Gold, Saint

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• One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Real, World, Action

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.214

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• We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Peace, Women

  Marian Wright Edelman (1987). “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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