Quotes about Service

Happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate

By the grace of God and by keeping busy making life better for others. That is how women always get through the hard parts of life.

Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained

Nobody was hard with him or with me. There was duty to be done, and it was done, but not harshly.

So, Mr. Trabb measured and calculated me in the parlor, as if I were an estate and he the finest species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.