Serving Others Quotes - Page 5

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  I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Helping Others, Greatness

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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• You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

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• We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who seem to us to be children of the Devil will still become Christ's disciples.

  Francis of Assisi

  Children, Home, Devil

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• First, there's the job - where the goal is simply to earn a living and support your family. Then there's the career - where you trace your progress through various appointments and achievements. Finally, there's the calling - the ideal blend of activity and character that makes work inseparable from life.

  Robert Bella

  Jobs, Character, Careers

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• A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

  Cornel West

  Rich Life, Trying, World

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• Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.

  Mother Teresa

  Home, Love Is, Saint

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• Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Tree, Plant

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.238, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it.

  Thomas of Villanova

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

  John of the Cross

  Memories, Men, Saint

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• No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and torment in the company of the demons. Do not, therefore, adorn the church and ignore your afflicted brother, for he is the most precious temple of all.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Fire, Church

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• The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

  Philip Neri

  Faith, Inspiration, Wish

  "The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri".

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• Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Saint, It Hurts

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• I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

  Saint Augustine

  Catholic, Suffering, Doe

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• We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Sick, Waiting, Comfort

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• He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

  John of the Cross

  Opportunity, Men, Hands

  Saint John of the Cross (1966). “The collected works”

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• As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

  Mother Teresa

  Mean, Knowing, Suffering

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

  Tim Tebow

  Humble, People, Way

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• It is hard to feel bad about yourself when you are doing something good for someone else. There are a lot of ways to lift your self-esteem, but making a positive difference in another's life has got to be my best leadership guidance. Serving others and working to add value to them will lift your spirits in a way that nothing else will. Trust me on this one.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Self Esteem, Differences

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• 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

  Joy, Finding Yourself, Tire

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• Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

  Marvin Olasky

  Believe, Fighting, Temptation

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• If leadership is, fundamentally, about serving others, then any one person should be able to move between being a "leader" and a "follower."

  James M Strock

  Moving, Leader

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• We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

  Mother Teresa

  Home, Compassion, Forgiving

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Selfish, Character

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.50, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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