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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Servants.
If the Great Way perishes, there will be morality and duty.
When cleverness and knowledge arise, great lies will flourish.
When relatives fall out with one another,
there will be filial duty and love.
When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
- Lao Tzu
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The people themselves, and not their servants,
can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Though I am a servant, I am not your servant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
You shall not covet your neighbor's house;
you shall not covet your neighbor's wife,
nor his male servant, nor his female servant,
nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
- Exodus 20:17
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment,
failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer,
I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
- Winston Churchill
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
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
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you make a world tolerable for yourself,
you make a world tolerable for others.
- Anais Nin
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
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
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
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The antidotes for worry are gratitude, action, service, and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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