Service Quotes

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.

~ Steve Maraboli

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

~ Mother Teresa

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

~ Ramana Maharshi

Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.

~ Martin Luther

Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in his sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.

~ Francis Of Assisi

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

~ Martin Luther

If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.

~ Florence Nightingale

Service to humanity is service to God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As long as you are ready to pay this price for living in the light (knowledge) the darkness (ignorance) becomes a servant to you.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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 have sought and found how to serve.

~ Albert Schweitzer

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.

~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.

~ Steve Maraboli

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

~ Michel De Montaigne

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

~ Booker T. Washington

It feels great to share life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

~ Barack Obama

I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

~ Barack Obama

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

~ John Piper

Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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)

~ Jean-Yves Leloup

You are serving someone for the rest of your life, not knowing a time must come when you must also be served.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.

~ Amit Kalantri

I have to serve with all my might.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our daily prayer ought to be: Please universe, help me help myself and help me show others how to help themselves.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The more you become aware of and respond to the needs of others, the richer your own life becomes.

~ Mollie Marti

Life is a sacred service.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let these words be your guide; money or no money, houses or no houses, cars or no cars, never turn down the divine assignment of God for your life. Become an inspiration to another life through good service and healthy relationship.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Serve, serve.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita