Quotes About Service

Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the smoke into the face of God.

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Work for a cause, not for applause... Live life to express, not to impress.

Life is all about just being a good person and helping others. Love is always the answer.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.

When I give, I give myself.

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

Who kept the faith, fought the fight and gave their life; the glory theirs, the duty ours!

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life-your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life-and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.

God has added one more day in your life, not because you need it...because someone else needs you.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.