1. Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed; businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. ~Nicholas M. Butler
2. Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large. ~Gandhi
3. Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. ~Sally Koch
4. Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. ~Sally Koch
5. His Name was Fleming
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer.
One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.
There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself.
Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life.
"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer.
At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel. "Is that your son?" the nobleman asked. "Yes," the farmer replied proudly.
"I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of."
And that he did. Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, he graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
What saved his life this time? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.
His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill. ~Unknown
6. I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do. ~Helen Keller
7. I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. ~Albert Schweitzer
8. If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. ~Emily Dickinson
9. If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. ~Alex Noble
10. In nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
11. The power of love and caring can change the world. ~James Autry
12. We are here to help one another along life’s journey. ~William Bennett
13. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or by the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind. ~Martin Luther King Jr.
14. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other. ~George Eliot
15. When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. ~Joseph Campbell
16. Work done in the true spirit of service...is considered as worship. ~Baha Allah, founder of the Baha’i faith.