Selfless Service Quotes

“When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.”
― Thomas S. Monson

“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general of forgotten battles compared with the queen who paid for Shakespeare's meals and beer in the tavern. The statesman who in his time freed the slaves, even he has a few enemies in posterity, whereas the literary patron has none. We thank Gaius Maecenas for the nobility of soul we attribute to Virgil; but he isn’t blamed for the selfishness and egocentricity that the poet possessed. The patron creates 'literature through altruism,' something not even the greatest genius can do with a pen.”
― Roman Payne

“...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

“[He] seemed to possess, beneath it all, an immutable sense of self-assurance, but in addition to that, the look of a man ensnared by what he perceived to be his own Duty. A Duty that effervesced inside of him impatiently, dry at the mouth, shaking feverishly, and holding its breath in anticipation for—not his action, but in fact—the fruits of his actions, however distant these may have been. The goal was to satiate its thirst in as few moves as possible, instilling each action with an almost implied necessity for having a motive by which it must exist, which is to say that no action was to be wasted for anything, but only for that which was rooted in some definable and clear-cut purpose...Every action had to be a step in some direction and there could be no dillydallying, for Duty bubbling in the bloodstream for too long brought with it a kind of sickness...from which it was difficult to recover. Neither could there be any reconsideration, for the values to which one has sworn were unassailable and beyond the powers of one individual to reassess. And so, Duty, once instilled, must be allowed to carry on unabated, diverting sustenance away from other aspects of one’s character—driving them to a weakened state, brow-beaten by circumstances beyond their immediate control and relegated to their own downtrodden acquiescence to the bravado of the Parasitic Superego, and, as such, cognizant of their growing superfluity.”
― Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

“Selflessness is divine sanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Compassion is love that rolls up its sleeves, and gets to work.”
― Samvara (Geoff Malone)

“The yardstick of spiritual maturity is seen in the greatness and value of one's selfless service and the livingness of daily virtues.”
― Master Del Pe, Hidden Dangers of Meditation and Yoga: How to Play with Your Sacred Fires Safely

“Maximum benefit in harvesting good karma results from a donation that has the greatest influence on world evolution and human development for the longest period of time and for the largest number of the beneficiaries, human or otherwise.”
― Master Del Pe, The Third Eye: A Universal Secret Revealed

“In crisis, a civilian wonders, how can I save my family - a politician wonders, how can I save myself - a humanitarian wonders, how can I save the world!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Lives to serve before I sleep, service is my salvation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Lives to serve before I sleep,
Service is my salvation.
Wounds to heal before I sleep,
Selfless joy brings illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Humanitarianism is civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Anybody can be gifted because anybody can be a gift to others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“An activist is always broke,
a philanthropist is always rich.
That's the difference between
service and a publicity stunt.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Live as a lamp, not a lamb.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Divine in deed is divine indeed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Each of you are the world's remedy,
each of you are light to life -
breathing testament to possibility,
walk, and weave the world civilized!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Human walks not in luxury suits,
but in dusty rags of the street -
human feasts with homeless folks,
and dies happy at their feet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Holiness unfolds in human welfare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“If the trees refused to endure storms,
no human habitat could flourish anywhere.
If the one human refuses to take pains,
whole humanity will collapse and disappear.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“You are a living powerhouse of love and good, question is, will you be brave and come true?”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“You don't wake up to a better world, you toil through the dead of night, so the world wakes up civilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Life's meaning comes not from what we gain for ourselves, but from what we give up for others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“The question is not, how much can I enjoy, but how much can I endure to lift up the world!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Sometimes, the one who was never helped becomes the one who helps everyone.”
― Marion Bekoe

“Life is a three act existence: eat, sleep and serve.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I look after the world as family, so the world may look after my family, when I'm not there - that's the kind of blind faith that actually makes a difference.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Existence lived in service of others, is existence that outlives the entity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I'm a mad monk,
I won't return to paradise -
the world is a giant headache,
yet my suffering is my cure.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“By the time I'm finished with religion, religion would be more allergic to superstition and prejudice than science. By the time I'm finished with science, science would be more service centered than religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock