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Quotes About Service

The noblest life is the one laid down for another.
~ Jessica Khoury, Origin
When I die and go to heaven, to St. Peter, I will tell: "one more soldier reporting for duty, sir. I've served my time in hell.
~ Unknown
After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Leave this world a little better than you found it.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
Design exists to serve some purpose.
~ Paula Scher
If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing.
~ Josh Linkner
Service Marketing delivers when great communication meets great service design.
~ Peter Bowman
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.
~ David A. Bednar
I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.
~ Vance Havner
My motivation comes from a desire to make a difference in the quality of people's lives.
~ Marie Forleo
Many Democrats are sincere in their desire to help others.
~ Jim DeMint
My true desire is to relieve others of their pain, though I myself may fall into hell.
~ Unknown
It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.
~ Mitt Romney
Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope it will prevent people from starving.
~ Unknown
Enriching others is the only way to get rich, if that is what we desire. The more we serve, the more we deserve, getting what we give, no more and no less.
~ Ernie J Zelinski
It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
~ Mother Teresa
Our desire to share the gospel takes all of us to our knees, and it should, because we need the Lord's help.
~ Neil L. Andersen
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
~ Francis of Assisi
Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
~ Mencius
A company finds its destiny by answering three questions: 'Who are we?,' 'What do we stand for?,' and 'How do we serve?,'
~ Unknown
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.
~ Unknown
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act
~ Plato
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it
~ Marian Anderson