Quotes About Service

May I be a guard for those who need protection; a guide for those on the path; a boat, a raft, a bridge for those to cross the flood; may I be a lamp in the darkness; a resting place for the weary, and a healing medicine for all who are sick. For as long as Earth and sky endure, may I assist until all living beings are awakened.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." Some

Mother Teresa put it like this: "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.

Selfless men wind up in neglected graves.

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.

retiring with the officer's equivalent of a general

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

We need people who will go, and stay until the end.

God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

If you want to see revival, plant your church in the gutter.

If they could not understand the words about Jesus then we Christians should show them what He was like by the way we lived. I remembered He had said, 'If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.' So this was the beginning of what I called 'walking the extra mile'. There seemed to be a lot of Christians who did not mind walking one, not many who could be bothered to walk two, and no one who wanted to walk three. Those in need that I met seemed to need a marathon.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives

In the world everyone wants to be a 'wolf,' and no one is called to play the part of 'sheep.' Yet the world cannot live without this living witness of sacrifice. That is why it is essential that Christians should be very careful not to be 'wolves' in the spiritual sense - that is, people who try to dominate others. Christians must accept the domination of other people, and offer the daily sacrifice of their lives, which is united with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

Moreover, man carries in his heart the desire always to wield his scientific knowledge in service of the greater good. He would of course never use it for destructive purposes. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! ...

The king is in the pasture. We are out in the field fearless of our shadows. Gallant to the service of mankind. A cry loud and clear. No passion to wait in vain."

For love of country they accepted death.

Any marnin' th' good Lord lets'ee open your eyes, that's a day he's got somethin' f'r ye t' do.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

When a man is rescued from selfish desire his mind is unencumbered, and he is free to work for humanity.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.