Service Quotes

I am acutely aware that all I have been able to achieve has been in large part due to circumstances outside my control. This is why I teach, and this is why I write. I want to be one of those opportunities for others. Perhaps this is the true measure of success.

~ Chris Matakas

Ellie tells me, often, some variation on this theme: that I am a little too invested in how I'm feeling about church and God, and perhaps not invested enough in how I am serving church, God, neighbor.

~ Lauren F. Winner

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.

~ Sara Miles

There is one kind of charity common enough among us… It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being… [However] what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.

~ Jamsetji Tata

Alles ist Service und ohne Service ist Alles nichts.

~ Carsten K. Rath

Service Excellence eats discount and rebate for breakfast.

~ Carsten K. Rath

Leaders always look twice – because sometimes it is good from far but far from good – at a second look.

~ Carsten K. Rath

Perception is reality.

~ Carsten K. Rath

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.

~ Robert Jackson Bennett

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

What’s secretly in the water of modern culture is that people enter the world empty. That’s a very dangerous idea,because if everybody’s empty than other people can get us to do whatever they want because there’s nothing in us to stand against it. But if we came to do something that’s meaningful, that involves giving and making the world a more beautiful, healthy, lively place, then you become a difficult person to move around and manipulate.

~ Michael Meade

A soldier serves not to take, they don't strive to have something, but rather they strive so that others might one day have something. And a blade isn't a happy friend to a soldier, but a burden, a heavy one, to be used scrupulously and carefully. A good soldier does everything they can so they do not have to kill. That's what training is for. But if we have to, we will. And when we do that we give up some part of ourselves, as we're asked to do.

~ Robert Jackson Bennett

If it has to be done, it must be best done.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Give all your gifts away in service to the world.  If you want to paint, don't wait for a grant, paint a wall in your town that looks drab and uninviting.  You never know who is going to see that wall. Whatever it is you want to do, give it away in service to your community.

~ Marianne Williamson

Service is a selfless deed.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Another miraculous transformation is the shift from a sales mentality to a service mentality. When we're motivated by the desire to sell, we're only looking out for ourselves.  When we're motivated by the desire to serve, we're looking out for others.  Since in the realm of consciousness, we only get to keep what we give away, a service mentality is a far more abundant attitude.

~ Marianne Williamson

Life is service.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The aim and the result of faithful, fruitful, and fulfilling service is to make God famous.

~ Don Cousins

To serve the many, you first serve the few.

~ Ken Jennings

Are you serving others or your are being served by others?

~ Saji Ijiyemi

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!

~ Eric Ludy

Use your special skills for the service of humanity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.

~ John Stahl-Wert

If I were offering hip replacement services I'd use Jarod Kintz as my spokesman. No one can possibly be better than him, to replace the missing spoke in your wheels.

~ Will Advise

Are you serving in your local church or your are being served?

~ Saji Ijiyemi

While we as people of  God are certainly called to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, that whole we're blessed to be a blessing thing can still be kind of dangerous. It can be dangerous when we self-importantly place ourselves above the world, waiting to descend on those below so we can be the blessing they've been waiting for, like it or not.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

The grace of service is the spirit of belonging.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

That amount of time is to be converted into some products, benefits, goods, services, welfare, ministry, but most of us actually truncate this amount of wealth on daily basis.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Work is a form of service to God.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Help others find their way, their own values, and guide them through life’s ups and downs.

~ Hyrum W. Smith

From this distance of forgetting and reclaiming, I had moremercy on myself. I had poured my heart into serving. I could seenow what I had been blind to then, that the One treasured my service,regardless of human measures of success. (Linette)

~ Sharon Hinck

Since when has irresponsibility and lack of accountability in public service become a Nigerian factor?

~ Sunday Adelaja

Commitment to ourselves, our families, and our business is paramount to being successful. Human should be committed to rolling out great products, services and initiatives that impact those personal and professionals encounters which cross our path.

~ Sameh Elsayed

The Protestants of old go to work not just for the money, their biggest motivation for work is service to God and man. Not the interest to gain profit or make money.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

~ Sunday Adelaja

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...

~ Assegid Habtewold

A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan

~ Idries Shah

I will serve with all my might.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You should not fast just to get the anointing. That won’t be very effective. Fasting is rather a means of abasing yourselves for the service of God and man.

~ Pastor Adelaja Sunday

All work is service. If you aren't serving in your work, you really aren't working.

~ Tim Hiller