Browsing Topic Best Serving Others Quotes

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

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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

No one has ever become poor by giving.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

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.

A great measurement of wealth is one’s inspiration to be helpful to others.

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

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

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

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

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Man’s value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome.

My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him, and not to spoil his work by our shortcomings.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

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.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

So long as there are poor, – I am poor, – So long as there are prisons, – I am a prisoner, – So long as there are sick, – I am weak, – So long as there is ignorance, – I must learn the truth, – So long as there is hate, – I must love, – So long as there is hunger, – I am famished. – Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.

I have felt a calling to dedicate my life in a more direct and personal way to serving the marginalized, empowering the vulnerable and healing those who suffer from spiritual wounds.

Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others.

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

May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.

It’s more blessed to give than to receive – especially kittens.

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.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

I think that you are serving others when you share pieces of yourself with other people.

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

As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for humankind are all of a family. As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts.

Our greatest individual challenge in life is self-discipline. The self-discipline of a healthy diet, daily exercise, controlling our thoughts, selflessly serving others, and living a life of integrity.

The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.

Every reality before your eyes was once imagined in the mind of one person. No matter who judges or knocks your dream, pay no attention to them. Instead, create what you imagine, and you will then be amazed at the Divine creative capacity you do have that will be well remembered for serving others.

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.