Selfless Service Quotes:

Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

topic: Selfless, Mass, Selfless Service

Spiritual strength frequently comes through selfless service.

- Thomas S. Monson

source: Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

topic: Spiritual, Selfless, Selfless Service, Spiritual Strength

Purify the mind through selfless service.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

topic: Mind, Selfless, Selfless Service

When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Selfish, Doubt, Purpose, Selfless Service

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

topic: Encouragement, Freedom, Business, Way In Life, Social Good

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Leadership, Money, Integrity, Inspirational Customer Service, Inspirational Service

In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

topic: Age, Selfishness, Selfless, Selfless Service

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

topic: Inspirational, Commitment, Insperational, Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Joy

Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

topic: Powerful, Self, Influence, Selfless Service

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

- J. Oswald Sanders

topic: Men, Greatness, Giving, True Greatness, Selfless Service

By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Prayer, Answers, Becoming, Acts Of Service, Consecration

Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.

- Sai Baba

topic: Heart, Sleep, Selfless Giving, Selfless Service

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

- Tony Robbins

topic: Inspirational, Life, Family, Spiritual Joy, Joy Of Life

I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves

- Spencer W. Kimball

source: Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

topic: Perspective, Deeds, Problem, Acts Of Service, Selfless Service

Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Prayer, Feet, Doe, Spiritual Eyes, Acts Of Service

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Aries, Self Discovery, Selfless Service

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Men, Selfless, Spirit, Selflessness, Selfless Service

We should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service.

- Spencer W. Kimball

topic: Selfless, Quiet, Should, Selfless Service

Selfless service to mankind makes you free in the world of mortals.

- Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

topic: Generosity, Selfless, World, Selfless Service, Service To Mankind

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

- Nina Hagen

topic: Self, Aggravation, People, Selfless Giving, Selfless Service

One makes a gift of one's life and endeavors by sanctifying it with love, and devotion and selfless service. When seeking to uplift others, we are uplifted in the process. Every kind thought or smile therefore benefits oneself as well as all the world.

- David Hawkins

topic: Uplifting, Benefits, World, Kind Thoughts, Selfless Service

The temple is a point of intersection between heaven and earth. In this sacred place, holy work will be performed through selfless service and love. The temple reminds [us] of all that is good and beautiful in the world.

- David A. Bednar

topic: Beautiful, Heaven, Selfless, Intersections, Sacred Places

Now you are deep in what seems to me a peculiarly selfless service. The spiritual training of children must be that. You work for the years you will not see. You work for the Invisible all the time, but you work for the Eternal. So it is all worthwhile.

- Amy Carmichael

topic: Spiritual, Children, Years, Selfless Service

Miracles are everywhere to be found when the priesthood is understood, its power is honored and used properly, and faith is exerted.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Miracle, Found, Priesthood, Selfless Service

"It is my inmost conviction," Badshah Khan said, "that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat" - selfless service, faith, and love.

- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

source: "A Man to Match His Mountains: Badshah Khan, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam". Book by Eknath Easwaran, 1984.

topic: Islam, And Love, Selfless, Faith And Love, Selfless Service

Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service.

- Colleen Saidman

source: "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Yoga, Order, Meditation, Selfless Service

You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Country, Mean, Men, Insults You, Selfless Service

Many priests and employees at temples work for pay. No one should judge religion on the basis of the shortcomings of such workers. We should frame suitable rules and regulations for preventing them from falling prey to material temptations. The true guiding spirits of religion are those who engage in selfless service while dedicating their entire lives to attaining the vision of God.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

topic: Spiritual, Fall, Judging, Preventing, Rules And Regulations

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.78, Penguin Books India

topic: Roots, Hatred, Selfless, Selfless Service

We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Sister, Brother, Humble, Confessing, Rendering