Service Quotes

Today, I encourage you to consider your life, your values, and your relationships and consider who you are by the test of what you do. I invite you to re-affirm the values you hold dear and decide today to stand up for what you believe is right and good in the world.

~ Genevieve Gerard

Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.

~ Bill Courtney

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

~ Criss Jami

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.

~ Mary Mcleod Bethune

Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honour and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance.

~ Richard J. Foster

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

~ T.f. Hodge

Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.

~ Idries Shah

When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.

~ Elizabeth George

Somebody needs to be in charge! They may not always like what you’re doing, but press on!” My late uncle, CSM, US Army (Ret) Harris L. Parker, Airborne Ranger, aka Hardcore

~ Deborah L. Parker

Whenever we have opportunity to serve, we must serve with all our heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All resources in your possession is an opportunity for service.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Wanting help, I reached out to serve. Seeking happiness, I smiled and offered comfort. Yearning for love, I showed love. And now I understand. My life was never about me, it was always about you.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.Almost.It is death by living.

~ N.d. Wilson

To live forever, die in the service of others.

~ Debasish Mridha

To be alive on the planet is to surrender to being her partner. To be in service of the Earth is to be enraptured by her.

~ Julianne Skai Arbor

In serving others, the church will save itself from becoming nothing more than a spiritualized 501c3 not-for-profit, self-centered corporation, organized for the benefit of donor tax exemption. Serving others will remind us of our identity and call us out from this self-absorbed, selfish world to be the people of God on a journey following his Son, Jesus.

~ Ronnie Mcbrayer

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

~ Billy Graham

Service is the highest form of worship.

~ Debasish Mridha

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.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Love is a selfless service to mankind like a showcase done by the twinkling stars in beautiful nightly sky.

~ Santosh Kalwar

This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.

~ Walt Whitman

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.We will be judged by I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

~ Mother Teresa

The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.

~ Criss Jami

People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.

~ Joel Osteen

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

~ Cameron Dokey

The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country

~ George S. Patton Jr.

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.

~ Thérèse De Lisieux

Life is for service.

~ Fred Rogers

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold,' but rather, 'How many people did you help?

~ Thomas S. Monson

Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.

~ Lee Child

Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

~ David Mccullough

No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.

~ Oswald Chambers

We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.

~ Theodore Guerin

If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe them...My wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners...It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garment...But even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us.

~ Martin Luther