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Quotes About Service

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.
~ David Hockney
The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.
~ Joe Flanigan
My own share making contribution [to the the well-being of humanity]. So I never feel I am something special.
~ Dalai Lama
When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.
~ Louis Farrakhan
I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.
~ Russell Brand
Humanity is waiting for us. Not to hear about our actions, but to see our actions.
~ Hany El-Banna
Mama, humanity is my business.
~ Philip Zimbardo
And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that's crucial. So want to be an artist and a servant, a humanitarian, and I want to play goofy weirdoes.
~ Rainn Wilson
Artists have the responsibility to serve humanity give people hope.
~ Dalai Lama
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
~ Aberjhani
There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.
~ Eric Hoffer
I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Few men want to achieve greatness for humanity, thought Jeffrey. What better person is there to work for?
~ Brad McKinniss, Beast Machine
In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.
~ Steven Magee
I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
~ Louis Farrakhan
The world is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.
~ Thomas Paine
I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes four hours." I asked why and he said: "It keeps turning off the gas."
~ Frank Carson
A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter.
~ Morey Amsterdam
Why does every flight attendant seem like they are going through a divorce?
~ Natasha Leggero
Boy what a hotel that was, why they stole my towel.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?
~ George Carlin