I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath TagoreService 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 EdelmanTags: inspirational service
I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.
Martin LutherTags: christianity god religion service protestantism
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
Barack ObamaTags: work service hope determination just-do-it initiative proactivity helping-others volunteerism
The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.
Gordon B. HinckleyTags: service helping-others volunteerism
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.
Orson Scott CardTags: freedom service necessity ender
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
John WoodenTags: success energy work service completion action doing achievement perfection labor performance enterprise activity act acquirement attainment conclusion deed exertion feat fulfullment occurence production undertaking venture
God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.
Spencer W. KimballTags: service
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 have sought and found how to serve.
Albert SchweitzerTags: happiness service destiny
Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.
W.H. AudenTags: goodness service humorous
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