Service Quotes

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death...Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what makes you feel energized, connected, stimulated- what gives you your juice. Do what you love, give it back in the form of service, and you will do more than succeed. You will triumph.

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

The poorest service is repaid with thanks.

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

Power flows to those who serve.

Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.

Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.

Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.

The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.

Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.

The greatest joy comes from giving and serving, so replace your habit of focusing exclusively on yourself and what's in it for you. When you make the shift to supporting others in your life, without expecting anything in return, you'll think less about what you want and find comfort and joy in the act of giving and serving.

My motivation comes from a desire to make a difference in the quality of people's lives.

When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Become someone's hero.

[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales.

I don't think there's anything better you can do in this world than bring light wherever you go.

Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. Every country is their home, including Palestine, not by aggression but by loving service

Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

He who does not serve God where he is would not serve God anywhere else.

What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

If you're not doing something with your life, then it doesn’t matter how long you live. If you're doing something with your life, then it doesn't matter how short your life may be. A life is not measured by years lived, but by its usefulness. If you are giving, loving, serving, helping, encouraging, and adding value to others, then you're living a life that counts!

So long as space remainsSo long as sentient beings'Suffering remainsI will remainIn order to help,In order to serve.

Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never have to worry.

When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

The platform of services is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.

If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine.

Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character) I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there are those who suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all--- the foe, the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

My life is only important if i can help plenty of people

I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.