Quotes About Service

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.

Jesus wants men who will rule well.

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

A man can be a hero in any profession

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

For us military men, it is impossible to forget.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.