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Quotes About Service

[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.
~ Norman Davies
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
~ Paul McCartney
Boy, the things I do for England.
~ Prince Charles
Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside.
~ Reese Witherspoon
Do excellent work for Christ. So that's my heart. It's always been. And I want to be the best I can be. I want to make a difference in my generation.
~ Ricky Skaggs
The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.
~ Shane Claiborne
In a way, it is I who must do the grunt work. I want to work with kids... I hope we can grow so much that someone else can take care of what I do now.
~ Unknown
When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.
~ Annie Besant
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
~ B. Carroll Reece
The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.
~ Laozi
In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.
~ William Barclay
In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
~ Aldous Huxley
The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.
~ Laozi
Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.
~ Laurence Olivier
We just could not have the Church of Jesus Christ without the spirit of missionary work.
~ LeGrand Richards
The worker is far more important to our Lord than the work.
~ Lettie Cowman
You can't be that good; you work for me.
~ Lewis Carroll
…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Not to sound cliché or anything, but with the downtime that I have and the possible platform that my work could give me, I'd like to figure out a way to give back and make a difference, you know?
~ Luke Grimes
May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.
~ Mother Teresa
You can't do God's work without suffering.
~ Mother Teresa