Inspirational Quotes

Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.

~ Rick Warren

Most of the people don't see a big success in life, because small successes ignites ego issues in them.

~ Amit Kalantri

It comes over me that I had then a strange alter ego deep down somewhere inside me, as the full-blown flower is in the small tight bud, and I just took the course, I just transferred him to the climate, that blighted him once and for ever.

~ Henry James

Service 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 Edelman

Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.

~ Theodore Guerin

Life is service. Define your service.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If it has to be done, it must be best done.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

From this distance of forgetting and reclaiming, I had moremercy on myself. I had poured my heart into serving. I could seenow what I had been blind to then, that the One treasured my service,regardless of human measures of success. (Linette)

~ Sharon Hinck

I will serve with all my might.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is the ultimate purpose of our life and you find it in service.

~ Debasish Mridha

There is only one way to happiness and that is through service.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life becomes invaluable when we spend it in the service of others.

~ Debasish Mridha

you could wait to do something for God, but if He waited to do something for you, you couldn't finish reading this sentence...

~ Garrett Mccoy

I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others.

~ Chris Matakas

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

~ Albert Schweitzer

Each of us has the power to take action, to light a fire and be the ignition for others.

~ Jim Ziolkowski

The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

~ John Green

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance.

~ Rodney A. Winters

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

~ David Mamet

On the girl’s brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars a s beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, ‘I survived’.In a few breaths’ time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them as we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means the storyteller is alive. The next thing you know, something fine will happen to her, something marvellous, and then she will turn round and smile.

~ Chris Cleave

We all have our personal Andes.

~ Nando Parrado

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Lina couldn't sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city and the treasure it held, the treasure that was most valuable of all - herself, her family, and all of the generations of people who had lived in that secret place, their purpose, though they didn't know it, to make sure that human beings did not vanish from the world, no matter what happened above.

~ Jeanne Duprau

I come from a plane that fell into the mountains. I am Uruguayan. We have been walking for ten days. I have a friend up here who is injured. In the plane there is fourteen injured people. We have to get of here quickly and we don't have any food. We are weak. When are you going to come and fetch us? Please. We can't even walk. Where are we?

~ Nando Parrado

Outside, the dogs whine over the wind. They sense the wolves - they sense the wild. It calls to them, like it calls to me, and I wonder sometimes if we are the only ones who hear it.

~ Summer Lane

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not: we who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them, who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic and above all survivors…we’re not that way from perversity, and we cannot just let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

~ Piers Anthony

And so in time the rowboat and I became one and the same-like the archer and his bow or the artist and his paint. What I learned wasn't mastery over the elements; it was mastery over myself, which is what conquest is ultimately all about.

~ Richard Bode

Each of us is called upon to take a stand. So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each other, our works, our fears, our differences, our sisterhood and survivals, I urge you to tackle what is most difficult for us all, self-scrutiny of our complacencies, the idea that since each of us believes she is on the side of right, she need not examine her position.

~ Audre Lorde

Adaptation is the key to survival.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I’m proud of them, in a way. My little gold stars for surviving. For thriving. They aren’t just mistakes.

~ A.r. Kahler

The good thing about problems is that they all have solutions.

~ Tag Cavello

Use your strength, but always remember that any strengthmay become a weakness.

~ Kateryna Kei

Luck often comes to those who are brave.

~ Kateryna Kei

You need to be proud of the fact that you survived everything you went through as a child. Don't seperate yourself from that life. Embrace it, because I'm so fucking proud of you.

~ Colleen Hoover

Dying for someone is easy. J.T. murmured now; as if reading my mind.Living for yourself, that's hard.

~ Lisa Gardner

I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water is expensive. Bio-tech has created as many problems as it has fixed, but we're here, we're alive, we're the human race, we have survived wars and terrorism and scarcity and global famine, and we have made it back from the brink, not once but many times. History is not a suicide note - it's a record of our survival.

~ Jeanette Winterson