Quotes About Service

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.

In times like these, we need each other. We must bond together in spirit and in service.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.

My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

Together on the path of love, we can try to make a small difference in someone's life. What else is there to do?

Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

She lived in a world which she could make perfect for those she loved and in which her own comfort and happiness mattered not at all.

If all you need is a little temptation, then I am here at your service to provide it, ma'am.

Everything, even sweeping, scraping vegetables, weeding a garden and waiting on the sick could be a prayer, if it were offered to God.

foot-washing Baptists

May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful.

May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. May I stay forever in the stream. May I look down upon the windflower and the bull thistle and the coreopsis with the greatest respect.

More than 3,000 women helped out as nurses during the Civil War. Nursing was a new job for women in America. Before the war, only men had been nurses.

We waved our programs triumphantly at the usher who'd been so snappy to us earlier. He smiled back, relieved that the pressure of the funeral was over.

I had begun life with benevolent intentions and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice and make myself useful to my fellow beings

It did not occur to them to refuse. They knew that if you find some person or creature in desperate need of help which you can supply you have a human duty to supply it, even if it could inconvenience or even hurt you to do so. This, after all, is how the greatest and best deeds in the world have been done, and though the children did not say this aloud, they knew it inside themselves without even thinking about it.

Someone's got to look after the devil himself, as long as he wears clothes and needs food and drink.

You are not lonely because you are alone. Many are lonely amid their families and friends, or even with their beloved. Loneliness is a state in which one's heart is not fulfilled. Even when they live alone, those who somehow contribute to others harbor no loneliness in their hearts. If you don't want to be lonesome, be of service to others—whatever that service might be.

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.

We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.