Quotes About Service

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required.

I expect to pass though this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

Take egotism out, and you would castrate the benefactor.

In the Conservative view, you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.

When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

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

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Happiness is a by-product of helping others.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.

A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

I shall not pass this way again: Then let me now relieve some pain, Remove some barrier from the road, Or brighten some one's heavy load.

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.