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Because it's indeed difficult to portray, in any meaningful depth, another being, his appearance, speech, mentality, without to some degree, and often for quite trifling cause, offending him. The truth seems to be the nobody likes to see himself described as he is, or cares to see exactly set down what he said and did. Well, even i can understand that - because i don't like it myself when I am the sitter not the portraitist: the frailty of egos- and the more accurate the strokes, the greater the resentment.
— Truman Capote
... his second... must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
— Jane Austen, Emma
The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality. Once you do that, you'll be clear enough to deal with what's left.
— Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process.
— San Juan de la Cruz
Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is always more. The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part. Some economists are so attached to the notion of growth that they can't let go of that word, so they refer to recession as a time of "negative growth".
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.
— William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
Three-letter word that kills you for sure - Ego.
— Saru Singhal, Rousing Cadence
I speak as if he had no secrets from me. Well, then, you must know I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.
— Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.
— Winston S. Churchill
People talk about egos as if it were objects.
— Bob Dylan
There you go. That ego of yours getting in the way," I teased."Of what?""The perfect package."He snorted. "Let me tell you, I have the perfect--""Don't be gross.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego
—  it sure is good for his intellect.
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, The Jolly Corner and Other Tales
It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.
— William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage
—  you're just playin' yourself.
Joy is a choice, not an outcome.
— Beth   Johnson, Thoughts From The Inside
The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.
— Thomas Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The ego taunts truth with sarcasm.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.
— John Reader, Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins
Smiling for no reason at all is the reason i'm smiling
— Luke Kennedy
Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind.
— Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love
So-called intellectuals conceptualize love
—  fools just love.Fools breathe air
It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".
— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavadgita or The Song Divine
I'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I'm short
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
I feel so trapped, by my ego.
— T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken
When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.
— Sufian Chaudhary, World of Archangels
Self-inflicted pain has a calming effect; it clears the head, diminishes one's fascination with the ego, and most important, gives one the sense of having taken some real action against the everyday foolishness of the body and of the vagrant, willful, heedless imagination.
— Valerie Martin, A Recent Martyr
After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the portals of the soul like sentinels guarding against any counter attacks from the ego.
— Garey  Gordon
The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.
— Alexander Lowen, Bioenergetics: The Revolutionary Therapy That Uses the Language of the Body to Heal the Problems of the Mind
He [Eugène Rougon] believed exclusively in himself; where another saw reasons, Rougon possessed convictions; he subordinated everything to the incessant aggrandisement of his own ego. Despite being utterly devoid of real self-indulgence, he nevertheless indulged in secret orgies of supreme power.
— Émile Zola, His Excellency
if due to ego you think:i shall not fight
—  this resolve of yours is vain. your own nature will compel you.
Beauty could be defined simply as 'that which pleases.' But there is another aspect to art, and that... is the sublime. Like the mushroom cloud of the atom bomb, or the vastness of space as projected to us by satellite... the greatness of the experience goes beyond your ethical and aesthetic judgment, cutting you free from the binding ego of yourself. With the diminishment of your ego, the less there is of you, the more you see the sublime.
— Jen Wang
So how did you end up making a fool of yourself in front of twenty thousand people?I had a bigger hole to fill.What do you mean?A rock star is someone with a hole in his heart almost the size of his ego.
— Michka Assayas, Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas
Just last year, I had to read the old Indian epic, the Mahabharata. Inspired by it, I wished I had been named Draupadi. After all, she, too, had been born differently, even abnormally. She had stepped out of fire, a gift from the old gods to her father the king. There had been no Hindu gods involved in my birth, but the loose parallels gave me a delightful sense of grandeur.
— Sangu Mandanna
The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.
— Abbe Smith, Case of a Lifetime: A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Story
Contrary to what you may have heard or been taught, your ego isn't a bad thing. It means well. The ego wants to keep you safe, secure, protected and accepted. The problem comes in because it usually attempts to do this by keeping you in the same small, reclusive orbit that you've always gravitated toward. Life, on the other hand, is about change, growth and unfolding ever-greater aspects of the self. We all know the pain that is experienced when life decides to change even though you don't want it to. The harder you try to hold on to the comfort and safety of "what was" or "how it's always been done," the more pain you feel.
— Charles Holt, Intuitive Rebel: Tuning in to the Voice That Matters
That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Your ego is everything man about yourself
— Jeremy Aldana
I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one's own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the "I". One eventually realizes such intellectual isolationism promotes style, ego, awards. But not change.
— Miguel Syjuco
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
— Walt Whitman
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.
— Mother Teresa
The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.
— Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.
— Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
— Cameron Dokey, Before Midnight: A Retelling of Cinderella
God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.
— Spencer W. Kimball
The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country
— George S. Patton Jr.
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
— Thérèse de Lisieux
Life is for service.
— Fred Rogers, Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way
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
Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold,' but rather, 'How many people did you help?
— Thomas S. Monson, Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson
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
A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.
— Lee Child, Nothing to Lose
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, Humility and How to Get It
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
— David McCullough, John Adams
No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.
— Oswald Chambers
We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.
— Theodore Guerin, Journals and Letters of Mother Theodore Guerin
If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe them...My wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners...It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garment...But even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us.
— Martin Luther, Luther's Works Lectures on Galatians/Chapters 5-6 Chapters 1-6
We love those whom we serve (p. 26)
— Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope
Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.
— William Jennings Bryan
Service to others in their time of need is a privilege and an honor.
— Harley King
The abundant life begins from within and then moves outward to other individuals. If there is richness and righteousness in us, then we can make a difference in the lives of others, just as key individuals have influenced the lives of each of us for good and made us richer than we otherwise would have been.
— Spencer W. Kimball
When we attempt to clear up the mess others have made, or when we love the unlovely, we demonstrate the kind of weirdness God likes. We give the lie to the evolutionary survival of the fittest maxim...
— Ann Benton, If It's Not Too Much Trouble: The Challenge of the Aged Parent
I know that I might die but that seems a happier end than being without you and anyway it seems to me that looking in the face of hard things and still being able to move forward even when the end includes grave danger and the possibility of death is the mark of a man.
— Anna Godbersen, Envy
No dimensions are closed to the ones in service of the Universal Law.
— AainaA-Ridtz
There’s one thing about getting somebody to help you though…you got to take whatever it looks like - their kind of help. And you can’t be choosin what you like and don’t like. Help is a take it or leave it kind of thing, and if you can’t take it like it comes, might as well leave it, cause it’s gonna be more trouble than it’s worth.
— Todd  Johnson, The Sweet By and By
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You can't make people love you. Love isn't something you earn, or something you deserve. Love just is. Or it isn't. Anyway, there are more important things than love. Like service. Being of service. With love, you're waiting around for someone to give it to you. But service, that's something you give. And you don't have to give it just to people you love. It doesn't matter who you serve. It's the serving that matters.
— Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of
Life is service. Define your service.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Many of us who have found ourselves to be useful in Christian service have found ourselves unable, if we're honest, to connect with God in any other way, We do for him, instead of being with him. We become soldiers, instead of brothers and sisters and daughters and sons. This is dangerous, damaging territory, and I've spent to much time there.
— Shauna Niequist, Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.
— Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
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To serve humankind is service of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A community best serves itself when it truly serves the awakening of the unique story trying to come to life through each person born.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
God said that He Himself will take care of us
—  we are to only serve Him
If you ask God to show you those who are most in need of help, you might be surprised by what he will reveal.
— Kristelle Angelli, Agnes' Gift: A heartwarming story about the power of the Rosary
Their willingness to help others is arguably the single most important trait that defines them as Newfoundlanders. Today, it is an identity they cling to, in part, because it is something that cannot be taken away from them.
— Jim DeFede, The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
No mortal is independent
—  we'll someday need someone to lean on
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation.
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
It is one thing to follow God's way of service if you are regarded as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for you by God requires becoming a 'doormat' under other people's feet.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted--not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Some saints cannot do menial work while maintaining a saintly attitude because they feel such service is beneath their dignity.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
You are accountable for your own victory or misery
— ETC Wanyanwu
It’s a sheer-madness for a father not to see his son greater than him
— ETC Wanyanwu
Service is more important than self-gain.
— Sunday Adelaja
The mass-man would never have accepted authority external to himself had not his surroundings violently forced him to do so. As to-day, his surroundings do not so force him, the everlasting mass-man, true to his character, ceases to appeal to other authority and feels himself lord of his own existence. On the contrary the select man, the excellent man is urged, by interior necessity, to appeal from himself to some standard beyond himself, superior to himself, whose service he freely accepts...Contrary to what is usually thought, it is the man of excellence, and not the common man who lives in essential servitude. Life has no savour for him unless he makes it consist in service to something transcendental. Hence he does not look upon the necessity of serving as an oppression. When, by chance, such necessity is lacking, he grows restless and invents some new standard, more difficult, more exigent, with which to coerce himself. This is life lived as a discipline — the noble life.
— José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses
Those who do not have will always serve those who do.
— Jacob Tomsky, Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
The service [Jesus] gave to humanity was given even when we least merited that sacrifice. There is a joy in service that transcends emotional temporariness.
— Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love
Happy to be here, proud to serve.
— Keith Allan Moore
...joy we find when we realize God's deep desire to partner with everyday, normal people using their talents to do good.
— Chris Marlow, Doing Good Is Simple: Making a Difference Right Where You Are
If we have the power and the means, then we must help.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
Teach your employees how to build relationships with your customers.
— Daniel C. Felsted
God created you to be useful for a mighty purpose. He wants you to be the light and the salt of the world. It is in your DNA to be a champion, a winner, a conqueror and a light-bearer. You were born to rule, to soar high like the eagle and be energetic like a young lion. He has deposited you on earth to be a solution, a problem solver and a service provider.
— Sesan Kareem
You will serve. Either someone else's vision and purpose, or your own.
— Alan Froggatt
In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.
— Steven Magee
...minimalism in the service of others is a logical extension of the same ethos of selflessness.
— Joshua Becker, The More Of Less
The greatest effects we have on the world are the ones we can never see.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
Choose food, clothing, and shelter that accords with nature.Rely on your own body for transportation. Allow your work and your recreation to be one and the same. Do exercise that develops your whole being and not just your body. Listen to music that bridges the three spheres of your being. Choose leaders for their virtue rather than their wealth or power. Serve others and cultivate yourself simultaneously. Understand that true growth comes from meeting and solving problems of life in a way that is harmonizing to yourself and to others. If you can follow these simple old ways, you will be continually renewed.
— Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will really create rich opportunities in your life, career, business – and in the world. It’s is your ability to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, add value to that of others that will.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
A sworn sworn owes his liege our service and obedience, but this is madness.
— George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Choose to deliver amazing service to your customers. You'll stand out because they don't get it anywhere else.
— Kevin Stirtz, More Loyal Customers: 21 Real World Lessons to Keep Your Customers Coming Back
You cannot serve people by giving them orders as to what to do. The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them...The servant of the people, unlike the leader, is not on a high horse trying to carry the people to some designated point to which he would like to go for his own advantage. The servant of the people is down among them, living as they live, doing what they do and enjoying what they enjoy. He may be a little better informed than some of the other members of the group; it may be that he as had some experience they have not had, but in spite of this advantage he should have more humility than those whom he serves.
— Carter G. Woodson
I am acutely aware that all I have been able to achieve has been in large part due to circumstances outside my control. This is why I teach, and this is why I write. I want to be one of those opportunities for others. Perhaps this is the true measure of success.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
Ellie tells me, often, some variation on this theme: that I am a little too invested in how I'm feeling about church and God, and perhaps not invested enough in how I am serving church, God, neighbor.
— Lauren F. Winner, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
Christians could agree or argue about God as much as we wanted, but it was all essentially chatter. What bound that driver and me together was the obvious thing, so plain and dumb between us we could almost ignore it: the rough wooden pallet of onions that organized our days. Feed the hungry, heal the sick, visit prisoners. We fed people.
— Sara  Miles, Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
There is one kind of charity common enough among us… It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being… [However] what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.
— Jamsetji Tata
Alles ist Service und ohne Service ist Alles nichts.
— Carsten K. Rath
Service Excellence eats discount and rebate for breakfast.
— Carsten K. Rath
Try this: Be What or Who You feel/think is missing from your 'world'. Then You wouldn't have to exhaust You in searching for something or someone. You'd be so indulged in finding You inside You and be so fulfilled in being You to You and everyone else. The catch: What is missing from You is definitely missing from many outside You
— Ufuoma Apoki
Leaders always look twice – because sometimes it is good from far but far from good – at a second look.
— Carsten K. Rath
Perception is reality.
— Carsten K. Rath
The word everyone forgets is 'serve'...Yes. Serve. This is the service, and we soldiers are servants. Sure, when people think of a soldier, they think of soldiers taking. They think of us taking territory, taking the enemy, taking the city or a country, taking treasure, or blood. This grand, abstract idea of 'taking,' as if we were pirates, swaggering and brandishing our weapons, bullying and intimidating people. But a solider, a true soldier, I think, does not take. A soldier gives.
— Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Blades
We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
What’s secretly in the water of modern culture is that people enter the world empty. That’s a very dangerous idea,because if everybody’s empty than other people can get us to do whatever they want because there’s nothing in us to stand against it. But if we came to do something that’s meaningful, that involves giving and making the world a more beautiful, healthy, lively place, then you become a difficult person to move around and manipulate.
— Michael Meade
A soldier serves not to take, they don't strive to have something, but rather they strive so that others might one day have something. And a blade isn't a happy friend to a soldier, but a burden, a heavy one, to be used scrupulously and carefully. A good soldier does everything they can so they do not have to kill. That's what training is for. But if we have to, we will. And when we do that we give up some part of ourselves, as we're asked to do.
— Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Blades
If it has to be done, it must be best done.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Give all your gifts away in service to the world.  If you want to paint, don't wait for a grant, paint a wall in your town that looks drab and uninviting.  You never know who is going to see that wall. Whatever it is you want to do, give it away in service to your community.
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Service is a selfless deed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Another miraculous transformation is the shift from a sales mentality to a service mentality. When we're motivated by the desire to sell, we're only looking out for ourselves.  When we're motivated by the desire to serve, we're looking out for others.  Since in the realm of consciousness, we only get to keep what we give away, a service mentality is a far more abundant attitude.
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Life is service.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The aim and the result of faithful, fruitful, and fulfilling service is to make God famous.
— Don Cousins
To serve the many, you first serve the few.
— Ken  Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community
Are you serving others or your are being served by others?
— Saji Ijiyemi
There are two ways each of us can approach life: spending our days meeting our needs or looking for ways to meet others' needs. The mystery is that when we spend our life focused on our own needs, we are never satisfied... but when we pour out our life and focus on how we can serve others... our deepest needs are met as well!
— Eric Ludy, When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships
Use your special skills for the service of humanity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.
— John Stahl-Wert, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community
If I were offering hip replacement services I'd use Jarod Kintz as my spokesman. No one can possibly be better than him, to replace the missing spoke in your wheels.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
Are you serving in your local church or your are being served?
— Saji Ijiyemi
What sets the market price for a product or a service? The demand
— Matthew Donnelly
While we as people of  God are certainly called to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, that whole "we're blessed to be a blessing" thing can still be kind of dangerous. It can be dangerous when we self-importantly place ourselves above the world, waiting to descend on those below so we can be the "blessing" they've been waiting for, like it or not.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
The grace of service is the spirit of belonging.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
That amount of time is to be converted into some products, benefits, goods, services, welfare, ministry, but most of us actually truncate this amount of wealth on daily basis.
— Sunday Adelaja
Work is a form of service to God.
— Sunday Adelaja
I looked harder at Matthew 25 and realized that if  Jesus said "I was hungry and you fed me," then Christ's presence is not embodied in those who feed the hungry (as important as that work is), but Christ's presence is in the hungry being fed. Christ comes not in the form of those who visit the imprisoned but in the imprisoned being cared for. And to be clear, Christ does not come to us as the poor and hungry. Because, as anyone for whom the poor are not an abstraction but actual flesh-and-blood people knows, the poor and hungry and imprisoned are not a romantic special class of  Christlike people. And those who meet their needs are not a romantic special class of  Christlike people. We all are equally as sinful and saintly as the other. No, Christ comes to us in the needs of the poor and hungry, needs that are met by another so that the gleaming redemption of  God might be known. ... No one gets to play Jesus. But we do get to experience Jesus in that holy place where we meet others' needs and have our own needs met.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
Help others find their way, their own values, and guide them through life’s ups and downs.
— Hyrum W. Smith, The 3 Gaps: Are You Making a Difference?
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, The Deliverer
Since when has irresponsibility and lack of accountability in public service become a Nigerian factor?
— Sunday Adelaja
Commitment to ourselves, our families, and our business is paramount to being successful. Human should be committed to rolling out great products, services and initiatives that impact those personal and professionals encounters which cross our path.
— Sameh Elsayed
The Protestants of old go to work not just for the money, their biggest motivation for work is service to God and man. Not the interest to gain profit or make money.
— Sunday Adelaja
The quality of goods and services are always viewed as more important than the compensation.
— Sunday Adelaja
Serving in the best country in the world demands becoming the best in what you do. To become the best, learn from & hangout with the best...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan
— Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion
I will serve with all my might.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You should not fast just to get the anointing. That won’t be very effective. Fasting is rather a means of abasing yourselves for the service of God and man.
— Pastor Adelaja Sunday
All work is service. If you aren't serving in your work, you really aren't working.
— Tim Hiller, Strive: Life is Short, Pursue What Matters
Your success in life is determined by the extent to which you can humble yourself to serve others
— Sunday Adelaja
I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Serving others is a high honour in the spiritual realm
— Sunday Adelaja
Do not seek popularity or self-affirmation; just show people God’s love and mercy, and help them to prosper and succeed. Simply serve God
— Pastor Adelaja Sunday
The proof of true love for God is in service to others.
— Sunday Adelaja
Years later Lazar would recall questioning his mother as to who the people who shared his meals were. "Some are our relations," was the response, "But all of them are our people.
— katheryn spink
Being a samurai is all about selfless service and if the lord abuses the servant, it is no longer a situation of service; it becomes the situation of a victim. It is never acceptable for a samurai to be a victim. It is never acceptable to allow a lord to abuse you or rob you of your dignity. In such a situation, it is acceptable to walk away.
— Alexei Maxim Russell, Instruction Manual for the 21st Century Samurai
Sometimes love is letting others use you
—  Lending yourself to help them go further in their journey.
Serve no one with your gift, but all.
— Cornelius Elmore Addison, Tom Thorneval: Dream Merchant Extraordinaire
The sound of your life knows that nothing is lost-- nothing. Absolutely nothing is lost. The most devastating of things that have happened to you have brought you to this place. They give credibility and soundness to what you have been given to serve the world. What was once your weakness has become your strength. And the sound of your life helps you to see that.
— Suzette R. Hinton
As a human being, I know of no greater example of success than someone who is self-sustaining through using his passion in the service of others.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
You have been blessed to stand on the shoulders of giants. Make sure that someone stands on yours as well. This is the only way of human progress.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
I believe it is the responsibility of each of us to pass on whatever we have learned in our time here. If I reach enlightenment after meditating in a cave for 10 years, but do not pass on this teaching and it dies with me, this was a wasted life. I believe we are here to help one another, and each of us has a unique wisdom that we should do our best to convey to others.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
If we had lost our own chief good, other people’s good would remain, and that is worth trying for.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Service that is purely self serving, becomes a vice.Do not serve, vice.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Marriage doesn't put an end to one's ability to serve God and bring him glory. In fact, I've seen many married couples who have done more for God together than was possible as individuals.
— Jody Hedlund, An Uncertain Choice
Service is a promise that cannot be seen, touched, or felt through any of our external senses.
— Jag Randhawa, The Bright Idea Box: A Proven System to Drive Employee Engagement and Innovation
The most fulfilled among us are those who serve others.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
One of the reasons I decided to enter this profession," one of the Riot Librarrrians wrote, "was because I'm in love with information, and the library remains one of the few spaces in our lives where information is not a commodity.... There's a subversive element to librarianship that I adore.
— Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
Humility of the soul
—  divine.
Life is always easier when lived for others, and living for others is the best way I know to live for yourself.
— Chris Matakas
Those who serve others have purpose. Those who serve themselves are lost.
— Chris Matakas
Service, it seems, is the only antidote to existential frustration.
— Chris Matakas
Your happiness is in direct proportion to the amount you serve others.
— Chris Matakas
Every interaction with another is an opportunity to serve.
— Chris Matakas
There is no higher calling than the service of your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few.
— Chris Matakas
We are as the dead," Sha said. "Our purpose is to dedicate our lives to the service of our lord. And, when it is necessary, to surrender those lives. When we become what we are, we lose our lives - our names, our family, our homes, and our honour. All that remains is our lord.
— Jim Butcher, Princeps' Fury
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
Something critical is missing in places that care for broken and needy people if the only people there are also broken and needy.
— Mike Yankoski
When you put yourself and your interest ahead of the people you intend to serve, it doesn't take long to find out that it's a recipe for disappointment.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
We were just sitting there talking when Peter Maurin came in.We were just sitting there talking when lines of people began to form saying, "We need bread."....If there were six small loaves and a few fishes, we had to divide them. There was always bread.We were just sitting there talking and people moved in on us. Let those who can take it, take it. Some moved out and that made room for more. And somehow the walls were expanded.We were just sitting there talking and someone said, "Let's all go live on a farm."It was as casual as all that, I often think. It just came about. It just happened.
— Dorothy Day
...the phone rang.When the phone rang so early in the morning, it oftentimes meant somebody was dead. An elderly person had passed in the night. A Friday night traffic fatality. The families of deceased would set about the task of notifying family and friends, and somewhere among the sad litany of phone calls, they dialed our number.
— Ravi Howard
The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Living a life of service to others is the most powerful sermon of all, don't you think?
— Serena B. Miller, Under a Blackberry Moon
Our service for one another is a service to humanity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The dream of poor Bazin had always been to serve a man of the cloth.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
I am a great success, not because of what I have, but because, through service, I found enduring happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
A typical submissive lives to serve. She likely grew up believing that service to the people you care for is how you express your love for them. It had little or nothing to do with relationship dynamics, sex, kink, or anything anywhere near that complicated. It is a simple, sweet principle of love: If you care for someone, you do nice things for that person. It makes you feel better, it makes him feel better, and it makes the world - or at least your little corner of it - a better place for a time.
— Michael Makai, The Warrior Princess Submissive
It is not enough just to be good. We must be good for something. We must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for our presence. And the good that is in us must be spread to others. This is the measure of our civility.
— Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.
— Mother Teresa
We have a fundamental imperative in our lives to matter to others, to serve others, and to support each other in mattering more.
— Tom Hayes
As I'm smiling but fearing for the worse, he asks if I was in the Navy."NO. THIS IS JUST MY HALLOWEEN COSTUME.""WELL, I WAS... FOR NEARLY TWENTY YEARS."I don't know whether he wants me to apologize for impersonating a sailor, thank him for his service, or stop drooling as I melt into his eyes
— Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love
Too many companies— and individuals— are befuddled by delusion when it comes to identifying their authentic strengths and projecting those strengths through their brand. It’s as if they live in Opposite Land. If their service is wretched, they tell people that they are great at service. If they are selling a mediocre car, they expound on its hip sportiness. Claiming that you are what you are not will obscure the strengths you do have while destroying your credibility. It’s a lose-lose proposition. In order to hunt down and accurately tag authenticity, we must first pop the balloon of self-delusion.
— Tom Hayes
Our greatest dreams and desires abide in the mental and spiritual realm. In order to transfer them in the physical plane we need to invert subject and object. You will receive from the world what you deeply long to receive the day when you give to the world what you deeply long to receive. Today could be that day.
— Franco Santoro
Service is born out of love not duty.
— Todd Stocker, Leading from the Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders
May you be of service to mankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for which I believe I have sacrificed my life.
— Thomas Drummond
Being a good example is the best form of service.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Serving others is the surest and practical way of channeling your love. There is no love through lip service. If you love humanity, serve…
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
I miss it: the smell of sand, sweat, and gunpowder, rings of salt from dried sweat on my pants’ legs, and around my waist just under where my armor sits.
— Adam Fenner
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— Wizard
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
If you cannot seat where they sit, you have no right to tell them what’s good for them.
— J.A. Perez
There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler out of laziness and lack of character, owing to the baseness of his nature. If you like, you may take me for one of those. Then there is the other kind of idler, the idler despite himself, who is inwardly consumed by a great longing for action who does nothing because his hands are tied, because he is, so to speak, imprisoned somewhere, because he lacks what he needs to be productive, because disastrous circumstances have brought him forcibly to this end. Such a one does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels, I am good for something! My existence is not without reason! I know that I could be a quite a different person! How can I be of use, how can I be of service? There is something inside me, but what can it be? He is quite another idler. If you like you may take me for one of those.
— Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Lord Ram gave Hanuman a quizzical look and said, "What are you, a monkey or a man?" Hanuman bowed his head reverently, folded his hands and said, "When I do not know who I am, I serve You and when I do know who I am, You and I are One.
— Tulsidas, Ramcharitmanas
Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that
—  it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.
Leadership is service, not position.
— Tim Fargo
Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.
— Daniel H. Pink, To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
— John F. Kennedy
Let's be about leaving this world better than we find it each and every day. Our life is a testimony and through us divine loving is becoming more manifest. Greater good is calling upon us here in this world to be done this day. One of my rallying calls is let's go out and do some good. This is who we are. This is what we are about.
— John Morton, The Blessings Already Are
The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.
— Elizabeth Goudge, Island Magic
Communities are not built of friends, or of groups of people with similarstyles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand each other.They are built of people who feel they are part of something that isbigger than themselves: a shared goal or enterprise, like righting a wrong,or building a road, or raising children, or living honorably, or worshippinga god. To build community requires only the ability to see value in others:to look at them and see a potential partner in one's enterprise.
— Suzanne Goldsmith, A City Year: On the Streets and in the Neighborhoods with Twelve Young Community Service Volunteers