Henry Van Dyke Quotes

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

Not to be ministered unto but to minister.

Service is key. And as I have more on my plate, and I have more ambitions and more goals and things I want for myself, I'm realizing more and more how important it is to be a servant.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

Not everyone can be famous, but everyone can be great. Because greatness is a matter of service.

The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

My beautiful, selfless sister Manuela Testolini-Benet continues to inspire me to be a better woman. Always thinking of others, always doing God's work.

I'd say most definitely with my faith, there's no room for me with it. It's always about other people. It's always about loving on other people and giving praise where praise is due.

This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.