Service Quotes - Page 5

The word everyone forgets is 'serve'...Yes. Serve. This is the service, and we soldiers are servants. Sure, when people think of a soldier, they think of soldiers taking. They think of us taking territory, taking the enemy, taking the city or a country, taking treasure, or blood. This grand, abstract idea of 'taking,' as if we were pirates, swaggering and brandishing our weapons, bullying and intimidating people. But a solider, a true soldier, I think, does not take. A soldier gives.

Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.

It is better to serve than be served.

If you ask God to show you those who are most in need of help, you might be surprised by what he will reveal.

Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.

The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.

There is nothing bigger and more important than a person’s calling

Often the best gifts we can give each other cost nothing.

You must not wait to be elected into office, before you begin to serve. Begin to serve every where you are; in the home, community, school, university, work, hospital, church, market, society, nation and among many other places.

It is not the person who is being taken out of a trouble that gains experience on how to deliver people from troubles. It’s the person who does the deliverance that gains more experience. Leadership is service!

The more you give of yourself, the more you find yourself.

An effective life is a selfless one

Life is a sacred service.

To help people is to help God

Christians could agree or argue about God as much as we wanted, but it was all essentially chatter. What bound that driver and me together was the obvious thing, so plain and dumb between us we could almost ignore it: the rough wooden pallet of onions that organized our days. Feed the hungry, heal the sick, visit prisoners. We fed people.

Let's be about leaving this world better than we find it each and every day. Our life is a testimony and through us divine loving is becoming more manifest. Greater good is calling upon us here in this world to be done this day. One of my rallying calls is let's go out and do some good. This is who we are. This is what we are about.

The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.

Look for people around you and serve them with love and compassion

If ye realize the Emptiness of All Things, Compassion will raise within your heart;If ye lose all differentiation between yourselves and others, fit to serve others ye will be;And when in serving others ye shall win success, then shall ye meet with me;And finding me, ye shall attain to Buddhahood.

The only need of God is in people

Service is the highest form of worship.

Joblessness sets you free psychologically

Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.

It’s a sheer-madness for a father not to see his son greater than him

Keep living the best you could possibly offer life. You might not literally change the world if that's your original dream, but you would change, inspire, and make a difference in one person's world with the best of your world. Then you'd realize the truth that, one is too many.That, my dear, is the right step in the direction of changing the world.

The key ingredient in engaging the power available from service is motive.

Human existence is as a result of the evolution of time

Life is not about longevity but about effectiveness

If you are not serving the Lord, start serving Him, so that you will be a partaker of His blessings

The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

Eyes are the windows to the soul. A smile is the mirror of the heart

Fellowship and interaction with people opens up God’s heart to us

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

Value-added time produces multiplication and production

He took a deep breath in, still managing himself as if he were resisting temptation. He was a soldier, his father was in the service, too. Crying wasn't something Morell men did. They just didn't. He hadn't cried at Robbie Morell's funeral.So he wasn't going to now.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

The compensation we receive from employment is not enough for the time being wasted

Discovering yourself is the major key to being successful

On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

Time is the raw material for creation

My heart is ever at your service.

A leader learned to follow, and serves the followers who are learning to lead. ~T.F. Hodge

Of course you could do more - you can always do more, and you should do more - but still, the important things is to do what you can, whenever you can. You just do your best, and that's all you can do. Too many people use the excuse that they don't think they can do enough, so they decide they don't have to to do anything. There's never a good excuse for not doing anything - even if it's just to sign something, or send a small contribution, or invite a newly settled refugee family over for Thanksgiving.

If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157)

Our specific profession serves a sacred purpose.

The quality of goods and services are always viewed as more important than the compensation.

Service is not something you do. It is something you are.

We have to be diligent in serving God and in fulfilling the task set before us by Him

It is not about how intelligent you are or how good you score in exam but it is about how helpful you are and how much you made people happy

It’s either you are converting your time or not

Serving in the best country in the world demands becoming the best in what you do. To become the best, learn from & hangout with the best...

Work is not about survival alone

Serving others is one of the bases for you to have or to enjoy a fullness of purpose in life.

Uplifting God’s Kingdom on earth should be our life’s mandate as believers

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

Life is given to bring the will of God on earth

No amount of service we do can impress God, only our service to ordinary people can

There are two ways each of us can approach life: spending our days meeting our needs or looking for ways to meet others' needs. The mystery is that when we spend our life focused on our own needs, we are never satisfied... but when we pour out our life and focus on how we can serve others... our deepest needs are met as well!

Everything in existence was gotten from the currency of time