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In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
Dorothy Dix
Anything done for another is done for oneself.
Pope Boniface VIII
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mahatma Gandhi
What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.
Bishop Westcott
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
Baltasar Gracian
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Samuel Johnson
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Pearl Buck, My Several Worlds, 1
In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.
J. (Joshua) Reuben Clark, Jr.
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
Hector Hugh Munro
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Douglas Adams
You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.
James R. Cook
Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).
Victor Hugo
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Henry David Thoreau
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
Plato
Find a need and fill it.
Ruth Stafford Peale
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.
Today, in twelve countries, young men are resisting conscription and refusing military service. They are the pioneers of a warless world.
Albert Einstein
I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
Kahlil Gibran
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
Princess of Wales Diana
