Service Quotes

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~ Wizard

you could wait to do something for God, but if He waited to do something for you, you couldn't finish reading this sentence...

~ Garrett Mccoy

If you cannot seat where they sit, you have no right to tell them what’s good for them.

~ J.a. Perez

There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler out of laziness and lack of character, owing to the baseness of his nature. If you like, you may take me for one of those. Then there is the other kind of idler, the idler despite himself, who is inwardly consumed by a great longing for action who does nothing because his hands are tied, because he is, so to speak, imprisoned somewhere, because he lacks what he needs to be productive, because disastrous circumstances have brought him forcibly to this end. Such a one does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels, I am good for something! My existence is not without reason! I know that I could be a quite a different person! How can I be of use, how can I be of service? There is something inside me, but what can it be? He is quite another idler. If you like you may take me for one of those.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Lord Ram gave Hanuman a quizzical look and said, What are you, a monkey or a man? Hanuman bowed his head reverently, folded his hands and said, When I do not know who I am, I serve You and when I do know who I am, You and I are One.

~ Tulsidas

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that, it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

~ Pablo Casals

Leadership is service, not position.

~ Tim Fargo

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.

~ Daniel H. Pink

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

~ John F. Kennedy

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.

~ John Morton

The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

Communities are not built of friends, or of groups of people with similarstyles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand each other.They are built of people who feel they are part of something that isbigger than themselves: a shared goal or enterprise, like righting a wrong,or building a road, or raising children, or living honorably, or worshippinga god. To build community requires only the ability to see value in others:to look at them and see a potential partner in one's enterprise.

~ Suzanne Goldsmith

The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to precede every other inquiry into social physics, since it is, as it were, the basis. The average man, indeed, is in a nation what the centre of gravity is in a body; it is by having that central point in view that we arrive at the apprehension of all the phenomena of equilibrium and motion.

~ Adolphe Quetelet

She resembled the swallow in the fable who once every thousand years transferred a grain of wheat, in the hope of rearing a mountain to reach the moon. Such persons are raised up in every age; they obstinately insist on transporting their grains of wheat and they derive a certain exhilaration from the sneers of the bystanders. “How queerly they dress!” we cry. “How queerly they dress!

~ Thornton Wilder

I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others.

~ Chris Matakas

Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?

~ Colin S. Smith

You reveal your character by what you do with what you have.

~ Ge Paulus

When leaders reframe customers into guests, and results into experiences, profits escalate.

~ Eric Schiffer

If you are benefiting more than those you serve, you are no longer serving.

~ A. Hudnall

To Stanley Ager, the gift of human service was no one-way loyalty. He clearly gave his all to the families he served but, though he was almost too polite to state this, his expectation of loyalty in return was implicit.

~ Stanley Ager

EYou reveal your character by what you do with what you have.

~ Ge Paulus

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent - how are you going to serve society? If you cannot make your own child happy, how do you expect to be able to make anyone else happy? If all our friends in the peace movement or of service communities of any kind do not love and help each other, whom can we love and help?

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

~ Albert Schweitzer

When service is unto people, the bones can grow weary, the frustration deep. Because, agrees Dorothy Sayers, whenever man is made the center of things, he becomes the storm-center of trouble. The moment you think of serving people, you begin to have a notion that other people owe you something for your pains...You will begin to bargain for reward, to angle for applause... When the eyes of the heart focus on God, and the hands on always washing the feet of Jesus alone - the bones, they sing joy and the work returns to it's purest state: eucharisteo. The work becomes worship, a liturgy of thankfulness. The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action writes Mother Theresa. If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus... that's what makes us content. Deep joy is always in the touching of Christ - in whatever skin He comes to us in. Page 194

~ Ann Voskamp

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

~ Emanuel Swedenborg

Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the Age of Intellect is the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can solve the problems of the world. Even on the low level of practical affairs this is patently untrue. Any small human activity, the local bowls club or the ladies’ luncheon club, requires for its survival a measure of self-sacrifice and service on the part of the members. In a wider national sphere, the survival of the nation depends basically on the loyalty and self‑sacrifice of the citizens. The impression that the situation can be saved by mental cleverness, without unselfishness or human self-dedication, can only lead to collapse.

~ John Bagot Glubb

The spiritual energy of our time, as I've come to understand it, is not a rejection of the rational disciplines by which we've ordered our common life for many decades - law, politics, economics, science. It is, rather, a realization that these disciplines have a limited scope. They can't ask ultimate questions...they don't begin to tell us how to order our astonishments, what matters in life, what matters in a death, how to love, how we can be of service to each other. These are the kinds of questions religion arose to address and religions traditions are keepers of conversation across generations about them.

~ Krista Tippett

When in doubt as to what you should do, err on the side of 'giving.

~ Tony Cleaver

the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

The idea is not to do good because of the praise of men; but to do good because in doing good we develop godliness within us, and this being the case we shall become allied to godliness, which will in time become part and portion of our being.

~ Lorenzo Snow

Each of us has the power to take action, to light a fire and be the ignition for others.

~ Jim Ziolkowski

I’m growing mushrooms… because I can’t kill them. They just keep multiplying…and it’s like…I’m in service to them.

~ Sharon Weil

She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer.

~ Cornell Woolrich

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

~ Richie Norton

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.

~ Will Schwalbe

You can get in anywhere if you go to serve.

~ Brother Andrew

The highest distinction is service to others.

~ Max Brooks

If our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,” then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God’s love.

~ Marianne Williamson

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.

~ John Green