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• I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Tire, Enough, Weary

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• Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Views

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• If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

  Cornel West

  Always Trying, Causes, Guilty

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• The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it. We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that's the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

  Cornel West

  Life, Country, Patience

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• Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. [...] Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Thinking, Giving

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

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• Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.

  John M. Perkins

  Godly, Recognition, Glory

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• I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that a man who can subdue his own desires and master the art of serving others can make himself invaluable. In choosing sides the team captain always chose the good spikers on the first and second choice, but then the spikers would grab his arm and whisper, 'Take Michener.' I was never chosen lower than third, because I was needed. I wasn't good, but I was faithful.

  James A. Michener

  Sports, Volleyball, Art

  James A. Michener (2014). “Sports in America”, p.601, Dial Press

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• God welcomes genuine service, and that is the service of a soul that offers the bare and simple sacrifice of truth; but from false service, the mere display of material wealth, He turns away.

  Philo

  Sacrifice, Simple, Soul

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• It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own

  Mikhail Bakhtin

  People, Doe, Mouths

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• Financial security doesn't come from the amount of money you currently have; it comes from your ability to get more of it whenever you want ... Master the art of serving others and you will secure your financial future.

  Michael Neill

  Inspiring, Art, Want

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• There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

  James Hunter

  Joy, Needs, Authority

  James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.182, Crown Business

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• We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally serving others. Like a true benefactress, the secret of her service is unchangeableness. Thus is the busiest merchant, though within sight of his Lowell, put to pilgrim's shifts, and soon comes to staff and scrip and scallop-shell.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.98, Penguin

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• Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

  James Hunter

  Self, Joy, Servant Leadership

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• You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse your mind so that enlightenment will find a happy place to reside there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Effort, Mind, Enlightenment

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one’s own.

  Mikhail Bakhtin

  People, Half, Mouths

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• Happiness comes from serving others.

  Orrin Woodward

  Serving

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• Stewarding my time is not about selfishly pursuing only the things I like to do. It’s about effectively serving others in the ways I’m best able to serve and in the ways I am most uniquely called to serve.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Able, Way, My Time

  Kevin DeYoung (2013). “Crazy Busy”, p.38, SPCK

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• Because the Lord hears their cries and feels your deep compassion for them, He has from the beginning of time provided ways for His disciples to help. He has invited His children to consecrate their time, their means, and themselves to join with Him in serving others.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Mean, Compassion

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• Football became my obvious metaphor as it does for many, and I began to equate this as being 'halftime' in my life. As I reflected on my professional life I realized how much time I had spent trying to make first downs and score touchdowns. My focus had now changed into trying to be more about people and serving others.

  Marc Trestman

  Football, People, Focus

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• Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.

  Larry Winget

  People, Rewards, Planets

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.171, Penguin

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• Serving others prepares you to lead others.

  Jim George

  Servant Leadership, Servant Leader, Serving

  Jim George (2008). “The Bare Bones Bible® Handbook for Teens: Getting to Know Every Book in the Bible”, p.35, Harvest House Publishers

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• Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes supremely important. Will the rule-making flow from the matrix of voluntary exchange based on the ethic of serving others through private enterprise? Or will the rules be made and enforced by people wearing guns and bulletproof vests with a license to shock or kill based on minor annoyances?

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Gun, Bulletproof Vest, People

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• A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Temptation, Special, Needs

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• The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.

  Margery Wilson

  Self, Mind, Inward

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