Service Quotes

The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

May we find more grace to do good deeds.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest gift you can give is your time.  Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time.  People need your presence.  The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them -- to feed them or fix them.

~ Wally Lamb

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Nowhere in the bible did it say, “Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.

~ Shannon L. Alder

And in blessing himI was blessed,And in comforting himI was comforted…

~ Jessica Coupé

In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you’re treating people poorly then you're not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted.

~ Shannon L. Alder

By serving humanity, I automatically serve myself.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

All work done with love is healing work.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

If ye realize the Emptiness of All Things, Compassion will raise within your heart;If ye lose all differentiation between yourselves and others, fit to serve others ye will be;And when in serving others ye shall win success, then shall ye meet with me;And finding me, ye shall attain to Buddhahood.

~ Milarepa

The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Purpose driven attitude of service is the driving force for daring success.

~ Debasish Mridha

Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost; a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

~ Barack Obama

I know most people want others to have good lives, and, when they understand the situation, they will do what they can to steer the world back toward kindness. This is when human beings, I believe, are most admirable.

~ Daoud Hari

So you want to improve the world? Then do it. To the next person who crosses your path, say something kind, do something generous, perform a simple act of service. By doing this on a regular basis, you will indeed improve the world.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Often the best gifts we can give each other cost nothing.

~ Russ Ramsey

This woman did not know me, but she knew this stretch of trail. She didn't know if I was kind or mean, gentle or abrasive, honest or a liar. She didn't need to know what I had accomplished in life or what I had wasted. She just knew that if I was there in her hospital on my birthday, I was probably feeling a little lost. On that basis alone, i mattered to her.

~ Russ Ramsey

The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.

~ Charles Dickens

Life is a sacred shared-life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May you find help when you need it most.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every opportunity with another was an opportunity to serve my fellow man. Every moment alone was a chance to grow and become more of who I already was. I instantly felt how great a life could be, and that was only made possible by service toward others.

~ Chris Matakas

Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When you search for happiness, it flies away.When you serve others, you will find the way.When you share blessings and express kindness,You will find the source of enduring happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

I will not hesitate.I will not hang back.I will go and offer my heart, for it is what I have to give...

~ Kate Mullane Robertson

The quality of your life is directly proportional to the positive effect you have on others’ lives.

~ Chris Matakas

Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and grow into selfless service. The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us.

~ Paul Pitchford

You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.

~ Wayne W. Dyer

For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.

~ Criss Jami

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

~ Leeann Taylor

Being part of the whole, as I grow so does that which contains me.

~ Chris Matakas

There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it away.

~ Chris Matakas

Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.

~ Criss Jami

Every gift you give, will multiply a hundred-fold.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You live not only for yourself but for others.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita