Service Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Service

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
- Bodhidharma

I have found out that though the ways in which
I can make myself useful are few,
yet the work open to me is endless.
- Helen Keller

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The answer to circumstances is choosing a positive response,
and the most positive choice is to be of service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller

We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen

I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins

Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis

We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln

We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa

Life's most urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)

No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank

You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard

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 will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
- Horace Traubel

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau

Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer

As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein

What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran

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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you wish to experience peace,
provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

That service is the noblest
which is rendered for its own sake.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom

Service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

Seek always to do some good, somewhere.
Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth.
You must give some time to your fellow man.
For remember, you don't live in a world all your own.
Your brothers are here too.
- Albert Schweitzer

Today, when the winds of adversity blow strong,
redirect their force into the
service of your highest intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson

Life is unlimited - it expands with the generosity,
compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney

It's your life - live your own goals,
your own values, your own life.
Be of service to others,
but make your own decisions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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