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Patience Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. ~ W. H. Auden ~ Our patience will achieve more than our force. ~ Edmund Burke ~ The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. ~ Epictetus ~ Patience means self-suffering. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~ Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not. ~ George Granville ~ Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it, ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland ~ Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. ~ Barbara Johnson ~ Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help. ~ Neal A. Maxwell ~ Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead. ~ Bill Mcglashen ~ Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other. ~ John Christian Morgenstern ~ If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. ~ Sir Isaac Newton ~ Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. ~ Elliot Paul ~ Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing ~ George Perera ~ In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ~ W. B. Prescott ~ Rome was not built in a day. ~ Proverb ~ An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. ~ Dutch Proverb ~ There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears. ~ C. S. Robinson ~ Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller ~ Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi] ~ William Shakespeare ~ If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you. ~ Source Unknown ~ Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper. ~ Source Unknown ~ |
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Service Great quotes to inspire, empower and motivate you to live the life of your dreams and become the person you've always wanted to be! Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. ~ Louis Auchincloss ~ He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well. ~ Hartmann Von Aue ~ 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 ~ 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 ~ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10] ~ Bible ~ Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward. ~ Achaan Chah ~ Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. ~ Shirley Chisholm ~ In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve. ~ J. Reuben Clark ~ You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. ~ Madame Marie Curie ~ Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back. ~ Princess of Wales Diana ~ The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule... ~ Albert Einstein ~ Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. ~ Charles W. Eliot ~ We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty. ~ Charles Fillmore ~ The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~ The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~ Nelson Henderson ~ Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. ~ Lou Holtz ~ The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. ~ Homer ~ Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. ~ Elbert Hubbard ~ Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse. ~ St. Jerome ~ The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. ~ Laurence Leamer ~ Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one! ~ Steve Leonard ~ In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men. ~ Cicero Pro Ligario ~ Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~ He who lives not to others, lives little to himself. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne ~ The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves. ~ Paul D. Moody ~ The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away. ~ Marcia Moore ~ Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt. ~ Judith Olney ~ Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow. ~ Elisabeth Claiborne Ortenberg ~ Always do more than is required of you. ~ George S. Patton ~ Find a need and fill it. ~ Ruth Stafford Peale ~ What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~ Albert Pike ~ Unwilling service earns no thanks. ~ Danish Proverb ~ Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service. ~ Swami Ramdas ~ I don't know what your destiny will be, but 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 ~ Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them. ~ Germaine De Stael ~ Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. ~ Count Leo Tolstoy ~ It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered. ~ Source Unknown ~ The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world. ~ Source Unknown ~ The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God. ~ Source Unknown ~ There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better. ~ Source Unknown ~ Anything done for another is done for oneself. ~ Pope Boniface VIII ~ Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother. ~ William A. Ward ~ If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated. ~ Frank F. Warren ~ If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. ~ Booker T. Washington ~ No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men. ~ Beran Wolfe ~ Small service is true service, while it lasts. ~ William Wordsworth ~ To leave a sting within a brother's heart. ~ Edward Young ~ |
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