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If he works for you, you work for him.
-Japanese Proverb
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The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Unwilling service earns no thanks.
-Danish proverb
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Volunteers
Many will be shocked to find,
When the day of judgement nears,
That there's a special place in Heaven
Set aside for volunteers.
Furnished with big recliners,
Satin Couches and footstools,
Where ther are no committee chairmen,
Nor yard sale or rest area coffee to serve.
No library duty or bulletin assembly,
There will be nothing to print and staple.
Not one thing to fold and mail,
Telephone lists will be outlawed.
But a finger snap will bring
Cool drinks and gourmet dinners
And rare treats fit for a king.
You ask,
Who'll serve these privileged few
And work for all the're worth?
Why, all those who reaped the benifits,
And not once volunteered on Earth.
-Anon.
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You can not do all the good the world needs, but the world needs all the good you can do.
-Anon.
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God likes help when helping people.
-Proverb
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
-Douglas Adams
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
-John Adams
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Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
-George Ade
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Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.
-Karl Albrecht
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Scared, Cold, in pain,
the dust hasn't settled yet.
Pinned in, crying,
my clothes are ripped, red, and wet.
Lights, noise, and confusion,
all part of the night.
I'm going to die alone,
give up the fight.
Red lights are flashing,
mixing with blue.
A face appears at my window,
the face is you.
You're gonna be all right
is the first thing you say.
A reassuring voice,
someone wants me to stay.
You could have been home with family,
they need you too.
You worked all day at the job,
your sleeping hours numbered two.
But you went down the hall,
hoping your family is OK.
Now you're here with me and Death,
with comforting words to say.
No time for yourself,
no thought for your safety.
Later you may think,
your decision was hasty.
Get the Jaws. Watch that gas;
Keep the people away.
Get his vitals, hose this down.
Some things I hear them say.
You stand in gas, look in my window,
show no fear.
I look back at you knowing,
your voice is the last I'll ever hear.
I fade away as you hold me,
while holding back your tears.
Thank you for being there,
You Brave Volunteers.
-Ralph Allen
Brave Volunteers
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You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.
-Dr. Robert Anthony
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If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.
-Marie Antoinette
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Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
-Louis Auchincloss
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We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
-W. H. Auden
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He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.
-Hartmann Von Aue
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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.
-Francis Bacon, 1603
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People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.
-Francis Bacon
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For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do.
-George Linnaeus Banks
What I Live For
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We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
-Djuna Barnes
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
-James Barrie
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.
-Bhagavad Gita
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The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord.
-Bible
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And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. Mark 10:44
-Bible
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Books about Service
