"Life's most persistent and urgent questions is, What are you doing for others?"

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"For as God bestows any ability or gift upon any of us, he binds us to such as have need of us and as we are able to help."

-John Calvin

"No task will be so sordid and base . . .that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight."

-John Calvin

"The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that a true Latter-day Saint 'is to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all, wherever he finds them'."

Thomas S. Monson
Guideposts for Life's Journey, BYU Speeches, November 2007

"Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself -- be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.  The more one forgets himself -- by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love -- the more human he is."

Viktor Frankl
Author of Man's Search for Meaning

"God knows our gifts.  My challenge to you and to me is to pray to know the gifts we have been given, to know how to develop them, and to recognize the opportunities to serve others that God provides us.  But most of all, I pray that you will be inspired to help others discover their special gifts from God to serve."

Henry B. Eyring

Help Them Aim High, Ensign, November 2012

"First observe, then serve."

Linda K. Burton, Ensign November 2012