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There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
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We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
Service to others is only noble when is is a choice
- a free-will gift.
Anything done out of a sense of obligation
or responsibility or duty becomes a burden
rather than a spiritual empowerment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just as a man would not cherish living
in a body other than his own,
so do nations not like to live under other nations,
however noble and great the latter may be.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter
Living Into the Great Paradox,
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life serves up.
I work to bring about my vision of the future,
which is based on my value system of what is right,
just, noble, compassionate, generous, humane, peaceful, and loving.
Simultaneously, I accept that my vision
is based on only my opinions and prejudices,
and I honor all points of view and value systems,
no matter how different from my own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Instead of noblemen,
let us have noble villages of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
That service is the noblest
which is rendered for its own sake.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your informed, "no," to a particular service
allows another to offer their
gifted and unreserved, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
It's your life - live your own goals,
your own values, your own life.
Be of service to others,
but make your own decisions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your spare time.
- Marion Wright Edelman
The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is unlimited - it expands with the generosity,
compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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