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Inspirational Quotes on Service

Emily — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:30:18 +0000

In honor of the first National Day of Service and Remembrance this September 11, 2009, here are some inspirational quotes on giving and serving from my collection…

Getters generally don’t get happiness; givers get it. You simply give others a bit of yourself–a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put in into the other fellow’s mind and heart… –Charles H. Burr

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? –George Eliot

People exist by virtue of the help they give to one another… Helping people improves the helped person’s life and keeps the helping person human. –Chaim Potok, “In the Beginning”

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. –Margaret Collier Graham

The smallest deed is greater than the greatest intention. –John Burroughs

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense. –Emanuel Swedenborg

Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? –Martin Luther King, Jr.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a minute before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

Seize every opportunity to contribute to the happiness of someone around you. –Ellen G. White

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. –James M. Barrie

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Emily — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:00:59 +0000

My grandparents got me started at quite a young age collecting quotes that resonated with me for whatever reason. Here, I share my growing collection with you. They are arranged in no particular order, unless perhaps as I’ve heard them and jotted them down.

If I’m not truly helping my visitors, I’m wasting their time. –Steve Pavlina (regarding his blog, entitled Personal Development for Smart People)
Our attention is one of the most important tools we can use for self-improvement, without it we are unaware of our dissatisfactions and shortcomings. –Steven Handel
A man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, can never regain its original dimension. –Oliver Wendell Holmes
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. –Dr. Seuss
When the mind is absorbed with religious trivia, too often the really important questions of morality and integrity are ignored and religion deteriorates into a matter of form and theory. –SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 7, p. 356.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. –Henry Ford
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. –Bruce Barton
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. –J. Brotherton
If in your Christian experience everything is an issue, you’ve got issues. –Jerry Arnold
We generate the results in life that we think we deserve. –Dr. Phil
Begin each day as if on purpose. –Alex Hitchins, in the movie Hitch
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. –Walt Disney
The meeting of two personalities is like a chemical equation; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. –Carl Jung
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. –Rumi
If you want to be happy, be. –Leo Tolstoy
It is easy to mope when I look at the struggles of those around me, the dim future, and the ceaseless grind of responsibility. However, if I just look at right now, minute by minute, it’s not that bad. In fact, it’s pretty good. –Ron Graves
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama, 14^th
There is a kernel of truth in every criticism. Look for it, and when you find it, rejoice in its value. –Dawson Trotman
It’s one thing to have a God to live with; it’s an entirely different thing to have a God to die with. –Jerry Arnold
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. –Mark Twain
My main purpose was to be where I was. –Peter Jenkins, A Walk Across America
…In closing off to pain we also close off to the experience of being fully alive. –Chris Johnstone, The Lens of Deep Ecology
Ninety percent of human relationship problems would be fixed if we would stop waiting for the other one to change. –Jerry Arnold
The finest health care in the world is proper self-care. –Joel Fuhrman, M.D. in Dr. Fuhrman’s Healthy Times Newsletter, No. 12 March 2004
Be careful when speaking; you create the world around you when you speak. –Navajo quote
If your church dried up and withered away, who in the community, outside your Adventist circles, would feel an impact? –Unknown
Qualities that don’t go out of style: enthusiasm, gratitude, giving, loving the people around you, persistence. –James S. Netherton
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. –William Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951)
You can solve almost any problem in life if you love the people involved in the problem. –James S. Netherton
No one can go back and make a brand new start, my friend, but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end. –Dan Zadra
If you’re not careful, the urgent will crowd out the important. –James S. Netherton
For God to let these things happen, as bad as they may appear, seems to me to indicate that we take it too seriously. –Jesse Melton

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