Service Quotes from Leaders and Thinkers
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it’s the only thing that ever does."
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Margaret Mead
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"We ourselves must be the change we want to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
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"Volunteering can be an exciting, growing, enjoyable experience. It is truly gratifying to serve a cause, practice one’s ideals, work with people…solve problems…see benefits and know one had a hand in them."
- Harriet Naylor
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"All of us can be great because all of us can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agrees to serve…You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love."
-
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill
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"How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- Anne Frank
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"It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."
- Albert Einstein
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"Use all the talent you can…The people I think are living the happiest lives are those who devote themselves to some bigger purpose. People seem the happiest when they are devoting their time to something other than their own self-interest."
- John Glenn
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"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."
- Helen Keller
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"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted, and behold, service was joy."
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Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize for Literature 1913
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"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
- Albert Einstein