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May you find great value in these Empowerment quotes and sayings.
Service to others is only noble when is is a choice
- a free-will gift.
Anything done out of a sense of obligation
or responsibility or duty becomes a burden
rather than a spiritual empowerment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Inspirational
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Seek always to do some good, somewhere.
Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth.
You must give some time to your fellow man.
For remember, you don't live in a world all your own.
Your brothers are here too.
- Albert Schweitzer
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
It's your life - live your own goals,
your own values, your own life.
Be of service to others,
but make your own decisions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney
The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
That service is the noblest
which is rendered for its own sake.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa
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