“Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”

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Ramana Maharshi75

Indian religious leader 1879–1950

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 152

“Sometimes you don't realize your own strength
Until you come face to face with
Your greatest weaknesses.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world.”

Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add an useful plant to its culture; especially, a bread grain; next in value to bread is oil.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

Thomas Jefferson, In Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of T. Jefferson (1829), Vol. 1, 144
Posthumous publications, On botany
Source: The Quotable Jefferson

“The greatest gift the Parsis have bestowed on India is in your own good self.”

Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) Indian politician

The Congress reception committee chairman at Lahore observed when he was honoured he was in Golden Temple in Armritsar quoted in Dr. Dadabhai Naoroji: "The Grand Old Man of India"
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