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Quotes About Service

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?
~ Marcus Aurelius
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have the devotion of the men who see and hear him.
~ Hojo Shigetoki
England expects every man to do his duty
~ Horatio Nelson
The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others
~ John Ruskin
I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years
~ Julian Bond
History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.
~ Karl Marx
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly useful if your first service tends to be out in any case.
~ Stephen Potter
The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
~ Theodore Parker
The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.
~ Thomas A. Edison
A manager is an assistant to his men.
~ Thomas J. Watson
I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.
~ Tom Ford
You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Service to mankind must ever be the ideal of this great university. It was established in the name of Jesus Christ, who gave his life that all men might live.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.
~ David O. McKay
The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him. By God's help, I aim to be that man.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
~ Epictetus
Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.
~ Francis Atterbury