Quotes About Service

but the point isn't to have them pay you more, it's to give them more. You give, give, give. Why?" Another shrug. "Because you love to. It's not a strategy, it's a way of life. And when you do," he added with a big grin, "then very, very profitable things begin to happen.

Your true value is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.

Or to put it another way, Your compensation is directly proportional to how many lives you touch.

Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them." She

Bob and John mean be a giving person, period: one who gives thought, gives attention, gives care, gives focus, gives time and energy—gives value to others.

Before you were called to be a shepherd, you were called to be a lamb.

Now I know what a statesman is he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

The rule of thumb at present seems to be that directors must not serve more than a total of nine years, three times a three-year service contract.

Customers have 'moments of truth'11 with an enterprise

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

Never had so little done so much for so many.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Never expect God to do for you what you don't do to others.

Never expect God to do for you what you don't do for others.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and of service to your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide'.

Help others get ahead. you will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.

the best way to earn the goodwill of your neighbor is to ask either explicitly or implicitly, "What can I do to be useful to you?

Peter Drucker told me that retirees have not proved to be the fertile source of volunteer effort we once thought they would be. They cut their engines off and lose their edge. Peter believed that if you do not have a second or parallel career in service by age forty-five, and if you are not vigorously involved in it by age fifty-five, it will never happen.

God's desire is for you to serve him just by being who you are, by using what he gave you to work with.

My passion is to multiply all that God has given me and, in the process, give it back. And I would like to incite you to do the same. I do not want you to be the seed that fell along the path or was scattered in rocky places or was choked by weeds.

God has a wonderful plan for the second half of your life: to allow you to serve him by doing what you like to do and what you are good at.

The second half of the baseball diamond is about good works. It is not at all separate from the first half, which is about belief, but grows out of that belief and gives it integrity.

It is a book that challenges the reader to action, and in taking that action, to greater service to themselves, their families, their communities, and their Maker.