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Christians need jobs just like anybody else, but the years you spend as an undergraduate are like everything else in your life. They're not yours to do with as you please. They're Christ's.
— Stanley Hauerwas
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
— Dag Hammarskjold
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
— Confucius
When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee - working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.
— Madeleine Albright
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
— Phillips Brooks
When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.
— Joel Osteen
In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
— Charles Stanley
Brethren, let us mind our own business - that is, the calling the Lord has called us to - to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, 'What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?'
— Brigham Young
The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.
— Jack Canfield
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
— George Bernard Shaw