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Marion Wright Edelman Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Marion Wright Edelman

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

Related topics: Values

Service Quotes and Sayings

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

 

What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What is admirable about those
who have been of great service to humanity
is not that they suffered in being of service,
but that they found their source of happiness
(joy if you prefer) in that service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A generous heart, kind speech,
and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha

In service, there is clarity and compassion.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer

Our opportunity is to visualize a kinder world.
To sing glad songs of tomorrow -
imagining a world of love -
of the whole world filled with love.
To offer our hand... often.
To breathe deeply and honor ourselves.
To pause and contemplate... just because.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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

If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein

For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller

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

Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime,
your best contribution to those around you
and to future generations
will be in the happiness and joy
you generated and radiated to those around you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer

The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain

Pay It Forward.
Gift future generations in proportion to your gratitude.
The nature of life is that we pay forward
our biological creation and nurture.
Our parents gift us with life and nurture,
and we gift our children with life and nurture.
While this much is essential to continued human existence,
choose to take "pay it forward" farther - much farther.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa

The whole worth of a kind deed is
in the love that inspires it.
- The Talmud

Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch

One of the secrets of life is that
all that is really worth the doing
is what we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein

Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins

As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn

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

I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono

I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer

You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller

I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou

Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma

A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell

No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank

Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller

We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
- Mother Teresa

The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

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