130 quotes about Service
Click here to search the web for Service



To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Adams, Douglas quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Adams, John quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Ade, George quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Albrecht, Karl quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Anthony, Dr. Robert quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Antoinette, Marie quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Auchincloss, Louis quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Auden, W. H. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Aue, Hartmann Von quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Augustine, St. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Beauvoir, Simone De quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Bhagavad Gita quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. [Mark 10:44]
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Bible quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Bible quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Boetcker, William quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Buck, Pearl S. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Carver, George Washington quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Cervantes, Miguel De quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Chah, Achaan quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Chisholm, Shirley quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Churchill, Winston quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Clark, J. Reuben quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Confucius quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Cook, James R. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Coolidge, Calvin quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Curie, Madame Marie quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Dalai Lama quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Dever, J. A. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Dhammapada quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Diana, Princess of Wales quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Diana, Princess of Wales quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Diana, Princess of Wales quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

I love meeting people and helping them.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Diana, Princess of Wales quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Diana, Princess of Wales quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

I am all about caring. I have always been like that.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Diana, Princess of Wales quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Dix, Dorothy quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Doherty, Henry L. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Edelman, Marian Wright quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Einstein, Albert quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Einstein, Albert quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Eliot, Charles W. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

He is great who confers the most benefits.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Emerson, Ralph Waldo quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

No man can help another without helping himself.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Emerson, Ralph Waldo quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Fillmore, Charles quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Forbes, Malcolm S. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Ford, Henry quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Franklin, Benjamin quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Franklin, Benjamin quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Gandhi, Mahatma quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Gandhi, Mahatma quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Gandhi, Mahatma quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Gracian, Baltasar quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Gropius, Walter quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Hale, Nathan quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Hansen, Mark Victor quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Hegel, Georg quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Henderson, Nelson quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Holtz, Lou quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Homer quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Hubbard, Elbert quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Jampolsky, Gerald G. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Jerome, St. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Johnson quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | King Jr. Martin Luther quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Leamer, Laurence quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Leonard, Steve quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Ligario, Cicero Pro quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Mandino, Og quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Moody, Paul D. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Moore, Marcia quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Mother Teresa quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Motto quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Nightingale, Earl quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Nightingale, Earl quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Olney, Judith quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Ortenberg, Elisabeth Claiborne quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Patterson, John H. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Always do more than is required of you.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Patton, George S. quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

Find a need and fill it.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Peale, Ruth Stafford quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

The public must and will be served.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote | Penn, William quotes
      Related items on Amazon USABooks from this quotation author on Amazon US or UKBooks from this quote author on Amazon UK

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Email this quotation to a friend     View quote