“Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.”  Gandhi

“Do things you love. Do things that you have faith will make other people happy and that will give back what you give them.”  Russell Simmons

“Because your existence in time and space is unique, there are lives that only you can touch.”  Harry Palmer

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Joy is increased by spreading it to others.”  Robert Murray McCheyne

“One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness; it usually comes back to you.”  Unknown

“You’ve got to give more than you take.”  Christopher Reeve

“Wake up in the morning and find out what you want to give as opposed to what you want to get. Through this practice of becoming a good giver you become a good getter.”  Russell Simmons

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”  Margaret Fuller

“We are here to love each other, serve each other and uplift each other.”  Unknown

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”  Mark Twain

“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.”  Peyton Conway March

“Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”  Helen Keller

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.”
  Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

“Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.”  Gretta Brooker Palmer

“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”  John Adams

“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”  Jim Rohn

“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”  Charles de Montesquieu

“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
” Lao Tzu

“Every time a man stands up to improve the lot of others, he sends forth a ripple of hope.”  Robert Kennedy

“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.”  Harold Kushner

“If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”  Bob Hope

“We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other.  If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.”  Unknown

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

“Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.”  Albert Einstein

“If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart.  Then in living – I have made my mark.”  Thomas L. Odem Jr.

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”  Mother Teresa

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

“We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.”  Earl Nightingale

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”  Muhammad Ali

“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are.”  Unknown

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”  Mark Twain

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
”  Mother Teresa

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”  Aesop

“What this world needs is a new kind of army – the army of the kind.”  Cleveland Amory

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”  Dalai Lama

“A kind deed a day, like little drops of rain, makes a mighty ocean and a gracious nation.”  Lin Hsiu Nei

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”  Samuel Johnson

“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
”  Frank A. Clark

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

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”  Plato

“I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.”  Edward Everett Hale

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.”  Sydney Smith

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.”  Edmund Burke

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”  Lao Tzu

“Whatever you spend is gone. What you keep, someone else gets. What you give is yours forever.
”  Dr. Wil Rose

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

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
  Winston Churchill

“He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.”  Sunshine Magazine

“Charity sees the need, not the cause.”  German Proverb

“If we could all hear one another’s prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.”  Ashleigh Brilliant

“Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.”  Norman B. Rice

“If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.”  Arabian Proverb

“I’ve seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.”  Tracy Chapman

“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.”  Saint Augustine

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”  Mother Teresa

“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”  Anatole France

“Well done is better than well said.”  Benjamin Franklin

“A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.”  Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“You can get everything in life that you want… if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want.”  Zig Ziglar

“There is a destiny that makes us brothers; None goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.”  Edwin Markham

“Everyone can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”  Martin Luther King Jr.

“Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.”  Danny Thomas

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”  Unknown

“The rewards you receive in life are determined by the value of what you give.”  Unknown

“The best way to cheer your self up is to cheer everybody else up.”  Mark Twain

“The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.”  Albert Einstein

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.”  Elbert Hubbard

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.”  Helen Keller

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”  Henry Adams

“If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.”  Robert South

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”  Aesop

“No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.”  Charles Dickens

“Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.”  Robert G. Ingersoll

“The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a larger part of oneself to others.”  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”  Dwight Eisenhower

“Humility gives us the ability to deny ourselves, not think too highly of ourselves, and put others above ourselves. Humility is all about understanding that we are not leaders who serve, but rather we are servants who have been given the opportunity to lead…”  Pastor Stovall Weems

“The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone solve his.”  Unknown

“Forget yourself for others and others will not forget you.”  Unknown

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”  Unknown

“Put others before yourself and you can become a leader among men.”  Unknown