Service Quotes

"Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world."

Ramana Maharshi

"The function of freedom is to free someone else."

Toni Morrison

"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it."

Clara Barton

"No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people."

J. R. D. Tata

"They alone live who live for others."

"The greatness of helping others rests on the greatness of untiring effort."

Thiruvalluvar

"Be grateful to the man you help, think of him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?"

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."

Marian Wright Edelman

"The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified."

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'"

Brian Tracy

"The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first."

Iyanla Vanzant

"Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart."

Elizabeth Andrew

"The national ideals of India are renunciation and service."

"I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help."

Baba Amte

"We rise by lifting others."

Robert G. Ingersoll

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

Leo Rosten

"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."

Albert Schweitzer

"Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours."

Teresa of Ávila

"The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace."

Mother Teresa

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."

John Wesley

"Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily."

Dorothy Day

"Everybody can be great because anybody can serve."

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."

Mother Teresa

"The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"We are not born for ourselves alone."

Cicero