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Real Stature and Service

?No man has ever risen to real stature until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.? Woodrow Wilson

Service and Good Health

?Sociologists find that those who volunteer enjoy better health than those that don?t.? Eugene C. Dorsey

George Bush on Serving

?The definition of a successful life must include serving others.? President George Bush

Service Brings Long Life

"American Health magazine reported the findings of the University of Michigan?s Research Center that says that doing regular volunteer work, more than any other activity, dramatically increased life expectancy and probably vitality." (Speaker?s Library of Business Stories, Griffith, Joe, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Copyright 1990.)

Joy and Immersion in Something Bigger

?No one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.? John Mason Brown

Serving Saved His Son

In the late nineteenth century, a member of parliament went to Scotland to make a speech. En route, his carriage became stuck in the mud. A Scottish farmboy came to the rescue with a team of horses that pulled the carriage loose. Awed by the great man, the boy would accept nothing in return for helping him out. The grateful statesman asked, ?Is there nothing you want to be when you grow up?? The boy said, ?I want to be a doctor.? The man said, ?Well, let me help.? True to his word, the Englishman helped make it possible for the Scottish boy to attend the university to graduate as a doctor. A little more than a half century later, on another continent, another world statesman lay dangerously ill with pneumonia. Winston Churchill had been stricken while attending a wartime conference. But a wonder drug was given to him ? a new drug called penicillin, which had been discovered by Alexander Fleming, Fleming was the young Scottish lad, and the man who had helped sponsor his education was Randolph Churchill, Winston?s father. (Speaker?s Library of Business Stories, Griffith, Joe, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Copyright 1990.)

Einstein on Being Here for Other Men

?From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men ? above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.? Albert Einstein

Inventing for Service

?I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others.? Thomas Edison

Service Guarantees Success

?The trouble with a great many of us in the business world is that we are thinking hardest of all about the dollar we want to make. Now that is the wrong idea from the start. I?ll tell you the man who has the idea of service in his business will never need to worry about profits. The money is bound to come. This idea of service in business is the biggest guarantee of success that any man can have.? Henry Ford

Making a Life by Giving

?We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.? Anonymous

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