Quotes About Service

The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use. That lets you design what you know—and you'll figure out immediately whether or not what you're making is any good.

Don't believe that "customer is always right" stuff

Customers, knowingly or not, seek an experience to accompany the product or service they're purchasing, and the business that offers the best experience in that category wins.

We build loyalty not by giving out job descriptions and offices, but by giving ourselves.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.

Instead of asking, "what do I want from life?," a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?

The acknowledgment of that abundance that is all around you awakens the dormant abundance within. Then let it flow out. When you smile at a stranger, there is already a minute outflow of energy. You become a giver. Ask yourself often: "What can I give here; how can I be of service to this person, this situation?" You don't need to own anything to feel abundant, although if you feel abundant consistently things will almost certainly come to you.

In the service of the Truth, religious teachings represent signposts or maps left behind by awakened humans to assist you in spiritual awakening, that is to say, in becoming free of identification with form.

Ask yourself often: 'What can I give here; how can I be of service to this person, this situation?

Why the hell would anyone ever choose police work as his profession, he wondered.

The basic idea is that those who help best are the ones who both need help and give help. A healthy community is dependent on all of us being both.

Whatever I may do to serve you will be prompted solely from selfish motives, since it gives me more pleasure to serve you than not.

I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own.

unfailing courtesy and willingness to be of service.

Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How many in this world do you think stand in the front rank? Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve?

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. I should, therefore, suspend my congratulations on the new liberty of France

She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There were Marys and Marthas, but Marys got all the limelight because of being Christ's handmaiden, but Marthas were far more sincere.

Do you like being a cop? I love it, when it doesn't suck, sir.

Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.

Too idle to work, too proud to beg, the mercenaries were accustomed to a life of rapine: they could rob with more dignity and effect under a banner and a chief; and the sovereign, to whom their service was useless, and their presence importunate, endeavored to discharge the torrent on some neighboring countries.

Regular pay, occasional donatives, and a stated recompense, after the appointed time of service, alleviated the hardships of the military life, whilst, on the other hand, it was impossible for cowardice or disobedience to escape the severest punishment. The centurions were authorized to chastise with blows, the generals had a right to punish with death; and it was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline, that a good soldier should dread his officers far more than the enemy.