If you want to be important – that’s wonderful. If you want to be great – that’s wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s your new definition of greatness – it means that everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know the second law of thermodynamics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love…
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Leader)
If you have someone special in your life, don’t wait to start loving them. Do not put it off for even one day. Make the choice to love now. Whoever loves you is only on loan from God, and he or she could be taken from you at any moment.
—Unknown
It’s not our job to change other people—it’s our job to love them, while they change themselves.
—Unknown
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
—Marie Dressler
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.
—Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
The more we co-operate, the better we operate.
—Unknown
Don’t be someone to please everyone else, but be someone to please yourself.
—Unknown
Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not.
—Isabel Allende
Everybody 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 verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle… (or) Einstein’s Theory of Relativity … (or) the Second Theory of Thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Leader)