Quotes About Service

Sometimes loving means giving. — Carol Russell —

While we agree with and support the need for workers being held accountable for their responsibilities, we also believe that collegiality in the workplace, helping one's team members, leads to more successful organizations. When our focus is on getting ahead personally or reaching one's goals, regardless of the impact on others, internal tension often sabotages growth. True leadership requires a willingness to serve others, either one's customers or one's collegue.

Although 2,466,719 volunteers had joined the army by the end of 1915, in January 1916 conscription had to be introduced. In all, 5,704,000 men served in the British army during the First World War, split roughly equally between volunteers and conscripts.[137] The army of the First World War was larger by far than any other army raised by Britain, before or since.

Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.

Mother Teresa said that she couldn't imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we can't imagine doing for thirty minutes without prayer?

If we don't meet people's felt needs, we will never meet their real needs.

Mature masculinity expresses itself not in the demand to be served, but in the strength to serve and to sacrifice for the good of woman.

Actor to Senderovsky: What awes you about the work you do? How does it humble you?

tikkun olam, or "repairing the world.

It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church—dramatically and poignantly—the nature of its heart and mission.

The priesthood of all believers" did not make everyone into church workers; rather, it turned every kind of work into a sacred calling.

It is still God who is responsible for giving us our daily bread. Though He could give it to us directly, by a miraculous provision, as He once did for the children of Israel when He fed them daily with manna, God has chosen to work through human beings, who, in their different capacities and according to their different talents, serve each other. This is the doctrine of vocation. p.14

Oaths are only mere weak things of honor compared to the benefits we give to others, which are things of the spirit; let us once save another, and we are his for life.

The common denominator in business marketing, political democracy, and religious reform is the transfer of power from service providers to service consumers.

If we go to heaven they'll put us to work on the thunder, captain.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It ia a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the future generations.

I have to live for others and not for myself: thats middle class morality.

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

I want to be all used up when I die.

This is the true joy in life — being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

This is the true joy of life: the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.