Quotes About Service

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully, though I never received one cent for it.

As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message.

the test of a man then is not, "How have I believed?" but "How have I loved?

The greatest thing," says some one, "a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children.

and is developed by exercise. Active use of the power entrusted to us is one of the chief means which God employs for producing the Christian graces.

Stephen Grellet wrote: 'I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough;I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

As we serve our jobs we serve the world.

Being greedy for money is the surest way not to get it, but when one serves for the sake of service—for the satisfaction of doing that which one believes to be right—then money abundantly takes care of itself.

Don't cheapen the product; don't cheapen the wage; don't overcharge the public. Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains—do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited.

The end of money is not ease but the opportunity to perform more service.

All that the Ford industries have done—all that I have done—is to endeavour to evidence by works that service comes before profit and that the sort of business which makes the world better for its presence is a noble profession.

3. The putting of service before profit. Without a profit, business cannot extend. There is nothing inherently wrong about making a profit. Well-conducted business enterprise cannot fail to return a profit, but profit must and inevitably will come as a reward for good service. It cannot be the basis—it must be the result of service.

A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.