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The following quotations remind us of the importance of service.

Serving Others is Privilege

"When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless."
John W. Gardner

"No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is never left long without proper reward."
Booker T. Washington

"Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed; businesses planned for profit are apt to fail."
Nicholas Murray Butler

"Try to forget yourself in service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us."
Sidney Powell

"The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life."
William J. H. Boetcker

"Find out where you can render a service; then render it. The rest is up to the Lord."
S. S. Kresge

Service and Success Are Synonymous

"Make yourself necessary to somebody."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The successful person is the one who is able to take his talents and invest them in the business of living a full life of service."
Sol Roth

"It is enough that I am of value to somebody today."
Hugh Prather

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
Anne Frank

"The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people."
Leo Tolstoy

"Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary."
Nathan Hale

"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

About the Privilege of Serving Others…

"Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life."
Carrie Chapman Catt

"It is not where you serve, but how you serve."
J. Rubin Clark

"Never cease to be convinced that life might be better…your own and others."
André Gide

"When you cease to contribute, you begin to die."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness."
Maurice Maeterlinck

And Finally

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package."
Ben Franklin

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