A Quote by Shirley Chisholm

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

Shirley Chisholm

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Earth Pay Rent Room Service

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Shirley Chisholm
American - Politician
November 30, 1924 - January 1, 2005

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

Wilfred Grenfell

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."

Wilfred Grenfell

If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?

Robert G. Allen

Perhaps the highest goodness attainable is a life of service to all mankind. Such an ideal is supported in nearly every page in the Gospels-the parables, the sermons, and the countless acts of service by our Lord Himself. The ideal is not limited to any particular kind of service, nor a given quantity of service. The ideal is accepting life itself as a trust to be used in the welfare of mankind. It is a life that is glad for the chance to be of any help, an attitude that 'service is the rent we pay for our own room on earth.' (Lord Halifax)

Obert C. Tanner

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Queen Elizabeth II

Service is the rent we pay for living.

Marian Wright Edelman

People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

Arthur Bloch

Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.

Joseph Murray

The thing I've learned most about poverty is how expensive it is to be poor. It's super easy to pay rent every month if you earn enough to pay rent and have a decent job. It's super hard to pay rent if you need a coupon from the state and then need to go find an apartment that will accept that coupon and only that coupon.

Nick Hanauer

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

Tony Curtis

We need to pay our dues to live on this earth; we need to pay the rent, and I'm doing that with the work we are carrying out here in Patagonia.

Douglas Tompkins

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

We had bills to pay. My dad wasn't working, and it was tough for my mom. People were always raising the rent, so I had to work, too. Everybody in the house worked to pay the rent.