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I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
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We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
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
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
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We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Living Into the Great Paradox,
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life serves up.
I work to bring about my vision of the future,
which is based on my value system of what is right,
just, noble, compassionate, generous, humane, peaceful, and loving.
Simultaneously, I accept that my vision
is based on only my opinions and prejudices,
and I honor all points of view and value systems,
no matter how different from my own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just as a man would not cherish living
in a body other than his own,
so do nations not like to live under other nations,
however noble and great the latter may be.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Instead of noblemen,
let us have noble villages of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
That service is the noblest
which is rendered for its own sake.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
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
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Mother Teresa
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
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