Serve Quotes

You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use— silence, exile, and cunning.

~ James Joyce

Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

Even though life is difficult as times, you must understand that these challenges are not here to beat you, defeat you, or squash you like a bug. Life is not against you (even though it feels that way sometimes). Every single experience is in your life to serve your process of growth and learning. Every situation you experience serves that purpose and is ultimately for your good.

~ Kimberly Giles

People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles.

~ Anthony Liccione

START: Serve, Thank, Ask, Receive, Trust

~ Richie Norton

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

~ Anthony Liccione

It is better to serve than be served.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

~ Anthony Liccione

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!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Service introduces you to the leadership throne. Service to mankind is the vision on which leadership is mounted. You serve and in your service, you train more leaders by becoming an example!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The bottom line is that you can’t lead the person you can’t serve!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

He who cannot serve cannot lead. It is by being a servant that you recognize that followers also have needs. True leaders are service oriented!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Great leaders are great servants because the only way of setting an example is by demonstrating an example. Service to mankind is the key to true leadership!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.

~ Mother Teresa

If I worship the fact that I don’t worship anything, amongst other things what I’m worshipping is denial.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What makes Jesus remarkable is that He didn’t come to earth to lead, He came to serve.

~ Jim George

As a spiritual leader, you are here to serve; not to be served. Stop robbing the poor. Jesus came to serve.

~ Felix Wantang

Jesus came to serve, and He wants you to follow His example.

~ Jim George

Our freedom through Christ means we are all free to love one another and to serve one another.

~ Chris Vonada

Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.

~ Criss Jami

Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Gandhi, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus Christ.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

~ Criss Jami

When there is shortage of anointing, you will begin to doubt your calling

~ Steven Chuks Nwaokeke

The starting place for your greatness is desire. The desire to succeed, to serve others, to keep on going no matter what; the desire to...

~ Assegid Habtewold

Learn from past experiences but accept them all as perfect while staying in the present. Let go of everything that doesn't serve you.

~ Mike Basevic

People who truly serve God actively look for darkness in order to chase darkness away, they run after darkness, they search for darkness in all its ramifications and destructive consequences.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.

~ Joy Williams

In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully.

~ Vern Dosch

We have mainly been taught to just stay in the church, be faithful, serve the church, and serve the man of God.

~ Sunday Adelaja

31. The human body seems indestructible when we are young. However, it is incredibly fragile and must be care for if it is to serve us for a lifetime. Too often, the abuse it takes during early years (from drugs, improper nutrition, sporting injuries, etc.) becomes painful handicaps during later years.

~ James C. Dobson

True greatness is not about the number of people who serve you. It's about why and how you serve the number of people you serve.

~ Damilola Oluwatoyinbo

Don’t cap your potential in the name of humility. First, maximize your potential, serve the world with your greatness and then worry about pride :-) lol

~ Assegid Habtewold

Your willingness to serve God is as important as your service to God.

~ Jim George

You can’t be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can’t serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can’t step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.

~ Bill Courtney

In India, all along, development as a process was always affected from the top down style of functioning. Naturally, because along with our freedom we had inherited a bureaucracy, which was designed by the British to rule, not to serve. The British way of doing things had always been to get things done through a government department and after independence we Indians merely continued this system.

~ Verghese Kurien

Do good deeds and serve people, because nobody is too unimportant not to be served by you.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Serving others means being willing to make sacrifices for their good.

~ Jim George

Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Seek to be served, and you become a servant. Seek to serve others, and you become a master.

~ Donald L. Hicks