Quotes about service

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

— Douglas Adams

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

— John Adams

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

— George Ade

Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

— Karl Albrecht

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

— Dr. Robert Anthony

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

— Marie Antoinette

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

— Louis Auchincloss

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

— W. H. Auden

He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.

— Hartmann Von Aue

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

— St. Augustine

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

— Simone De Beauvoir

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

— Bhagavad Gita

And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. [Mark 10:44]

— Bible

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]

— Bible

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

— William Boetcker

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

— Pearl S. Buck

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.

— George Washington Carver

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

— Miguel De Cervantes

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

— Achaan Chah

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

— Shirley Anita Chisholm

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

— Winston Churchill

In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

— J. Reuben Clark

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

— Confucius

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

— James R. Cook

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

— Calvin Coolidge

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

— Madame Marie Curie

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

— Dalai Lama

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

— J. A. Dever

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

— Dhammapada

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

— Princess of Wales Diana

Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

— Princess of Wales Diana

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

— Princess of Wales Diana

I love meeting people and helping them.

— Princess of Wales Diana

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

— Princess of Wales Diana

I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

— Princess of Wales Diana

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

— Dorothy Dix

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

— Henry L. Doherty

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

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...

— Albert Einstein

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

— Albert Einstein

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

— Charles W. Eliot

He is great who confers the most benefits.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man can help another without helping himself.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

— Charles Fillmore

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

— Henry Ford

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

— Benjamin Franklin

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

— Baltasar Gracian

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

— Walter Gropius

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

— Nathan Hale

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

— Mark Victor Hansen

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

— Georg Hegel

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

— Nelson Henderson

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

— Lou Holtz

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

— Homer

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

— Elbert Hubbard

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

— Gerald G. Jampolsky

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

— St. Jerome

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

— Johnson

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

— King Jr. Martin Luther

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

— Laurence Leamer

Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

— Steve Leonard

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.

— Cicero Pro Ligario

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

— Og Mandino

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

— Paul D. Moody

The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

— Marcia Moore

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

— Mother Teresa

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

— Motto

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

— Earl Nightingale

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

— Earl Nightingale

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

— Judith Olney

Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.

— Elisabeth Claiborne Ortenberg

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

— John H. Patterson

Always do more than is required of you.

— George S. Patton

Find a need and fill it.

— Ruth Stafford Peale

The public must and will be served.

— William Penn

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

— Albert Pike

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.

— Albert Pike

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

— Danish Proverb

God likes help when helping people.

— Irish Proverb

If he works for you, you work for him.

— Japanese Proverb

The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

— Jewish Proverb

Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.

— Swami Ramdas

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

— Jim Rohn

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

— Jim Rohn

Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.

— John Ruskin

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

— Albert Schweitzer

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

— Albert Schweitzer

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

— Albert Schweitzer

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

— Hans Selye

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

— Seneca

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

— Seneca

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

— Germaine De Stael

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.

— Sir Richard Steele

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

— Sun Tzu