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To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.
Author: Mother Teresa
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Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.
Author: President Bill Clinton
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Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
Author: Aristotle
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We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.
Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.
Author: former President George Bush
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There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
Author: Bernard Meltzer
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Author: Booker T. Washington
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Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
Author: Leo Buscaglia
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A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.
Author: G. Donald Gale
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There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.
Author: Mother Teresa
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Author: Aesop
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Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.
Author: Lao Tzu
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If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt...It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
Author: Gurdjieff
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The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.
Author: Collier Graham
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Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.
Author: Mother Teresa
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Author: Kahil Gibran
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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Author: Mother Teresa
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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
Author: Henri Frederick Amiel
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Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
Author: Gerald Jampolsky
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Those among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Author: Dr. Albert Schweitzer
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Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. With your help, we can build a more hopeful world.
Author: Marianne Larned
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other.
Author: Mother Theresa
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In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.
Author: Marianne Williamson
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Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Author: Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and a madness of desire--oh, no--love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living Yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.
Author: Henry Van Dyke
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We can do anything we want, if we stick to it long enough.
Author: Helen Keller
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Caring is a reflex... You live, you help.
Author: Ram Dass
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When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll become like a wildfire.
Author: Whoopi Goldberg
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I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Author: Etienne de Grellet
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