Quotes About Service

Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.

The key to all of life is understanding how to add value to others.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

Our ultimate aim in life is not to be healthy, wealthy, prosperous, or problem free. Our ultimate aim in life is to bring glory to God.

Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good.

Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

Life has always been a small matter with me when duty points the way

I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

What you get is a living-what you give is a life.

Imagine that it's not about the self and its concerns, about 'what's in it for me,' whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.

We must realize that the ministries and gifts of the Spirit are for everyday life, not just meetings.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live.