Quotes about service

May he who is highest serve best.

— Robert Thibodeau

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

— Count Leo Tolstoy

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

— Brian Tracy

There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

— Source Unknown

Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.

— Source Unknown

Make sure somebody need you.

— Source Unknown

Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

— Source Unknown

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

— Source Unknown

The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.

— Source Unknown

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

— Source Unknown

The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

— Source Unknown

We came here to serve not be served.

— Source Unknown

Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that somebody you?

— Source Unknown

Be alert to give service -- what counts most in life is what we do for others.

— Source Unknown

Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.

— Source Unknown

It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.

— Source Unknown

I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the top of the list somewhere is to give pleasure to others.

— Source Unknown

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

— Pope Boniface VIII

I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.

— Voltaire

Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.

— William A. Ward

If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated.

— Frank F. Warren

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

— Booker T. Washington

What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

— Bishop Westcott

Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

— Marcia Wieder

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

— Woodrow T. Wilson

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

— Beran Wolfe

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

— Tiger Woods

Small service is true service, while it lasts.

— William Wordsworth

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

— Edward Young

The most worthwhile thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

— Robert Baden-Powell

Serving others is only sustainable if you equally serve your self.

— A. Brandon Trean

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

— Mahatma Gandhi