Serving Quotes

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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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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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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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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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

Life, Courage, Time

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Good leaders must first become good servants.

Robert K. Greenleaf

Leadership, Future Leaders, Firsts

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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Gautama Buddha

Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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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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If God gave you a strong personality it's for serving others not controlling them.

Jimmy Evans

Strong, Personality, Serving Others

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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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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspiring, Leadership, Peace

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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

Basketball, Kindness, Fighting

Twitter post from May 26, 2010

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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Napoleon Hill

Motivational, Men, Class

Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.358, Penguin

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Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

John Piper

Sweet, People, Needs

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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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To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Felix Adler

Wisdom, Fun, Real

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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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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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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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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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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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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

John Adams

Inspirational, Healthcare, Serving Others

Letter to John Thaxter, September 29, 1778.

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He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

Confucius

Business, Volunteer, Team Building

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