Quotes About Service

Comprendí que ayudar a los demás, ¡me ayudaba a mí!».

Jesuit theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, "The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others." Anyone who has unselfishly helped another person knows this to be true.

Siendo un líder de nivel intermedio en una organización, su habilidad para mantener la autoridad que le han dado depende completamente de su fidelidad para servir a las personas que le dieron esa autoridad. De la misma forma, usted debe cuidarse de intentar avanzar a expensas de su líder. Y sería sabio no tener una conversación de «si yo estuviera a cargo» con otro miembro del personal. Si usted tiene problemas con sus líderes, hable con ellos.

GIVE FIRST, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES MAY BE.

If you are willing to make success about giving rather than gaining, you will find your life to be greatly rewarding.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others. —ANDREW CARNEGIE THE

4. The Higher the Level of Leadership, the Greater the Sacrifice: The higher you go, the more it's going to cost you.

produce second-mile followers. If you go out of your way to care about others and help them, then they will go out of their way to help you when you ask them to.

Howard Thurman: "No se pregunte lo que el mundo necesita. Pregúntese lo que hace que usted cobre vida y entonces hágalo. Porque lo que el mundo necesita son personas que cobren vida".

The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in so doing will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern, rather than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.15

Your ultimate goal as a leader should be to work hard enough and strategically enough that you have more than enough to give and share with others.

While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell

I do what I have to do, like everyone else, and one of the things I have to do is to serve my wife breakfast in bed.

Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others. Even if it's done mainly for show, it's still a start.

Mrs. Richards: Girl, there's no paper in my room. Why don't you check these things? That's what you're being paid for, isn't it? Polly: We don't put it in the rooms. Mrs. Richards: What? Polly: Well, we keep it in the lounge. Mrs. Richards: [aghast] In the lounge? Polly: I'll get you some. Do you want plain ones or ones with our address on it? Mrs. Richards: Address on it? Polly: How many sheets? Well, how many are you going to use? Mrs. Richards: Manager!

Genuinely good manners are, after all, essentially a way of moderating one's own egotism, often in the service of considering the egos of others. Even if it's done mainly for show, it's still a start. It

You matter to people when you serve their purpose, when you cease to do so the matter in you is worthless.

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

Following Christ's example, we have to learn to give ourselves completely. Anything else is not enough.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with

By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.