Quotes About Service

Focusing on others will give you more influence and power than focusing on yourself.

Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

God does not give His people a ministry for which He does not give them the power to do it.

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit.

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself.

Leadership is not about control but service. Its not about power but empowerment

If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?" It helped you remember that people aren't here for you; everyone is here for one another.

He writes of the Garman ethics that "there is a standard of righteousness that might does not make right, that the end does not justify the means, and that expediency as a working principle is bound to fail. The only hope of perfecting human relationships is in accordance with the law of service under which men are not so solicitous about what they shall get as they are about what they shall give.

Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

There is little use in preaching the love of God in words without showing the love of God in action.

The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here, Blest fishers were; and fish the last Food was, that He on earth did taste: I therefore strive to follow those, Whom He to follow Him hath chose.

I have spent most of my life most happily in making plans for others to carry out.

in a word, [they] did all the homely and necessary offices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endure to hear named; and all this willingly and cheerfully, without any grudging in the least, showing herein their true love unto their friends and brethren. A rare example and worthy to be remembered.

In respect to the danger of being killed by them, it is true that whoever does go must put his life in his hand, and not consult with flesh and blood; but do not the goodness of the cause, the duties incumbent on us as the creatures of God, and Christians, and the perishing state of our fellow men, loudly call upon us to venture all and use every warrantable exertion for their benefit?

Fourthly, As to the difficulty of procuring the necessaries of life, this would not be so great as may appear at first sight; for though we could not procure European food, yet we might procure such as the natives of those countries which we visit, subsist upon themselves. And this would only be passing through what we have virtually engaged, in by entering on the ministerial office.