Quotes About Service

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.

Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.

When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

Room service? Send up a larger room.

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

You are not doing service for others. You are doing it always for yourselves, to the God in you, the God who is equally present in others.

How in the world could I have lived such a helpful life as I have lived had I not been blind?

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

The quality of putting others before yourself, is a great way to build your self-esteem and to contribute to those who need you, at the same time.

Take a few minutes each day to focus on yourself and what you think you can do to make a difference in lives of people surrounding you.

Sometimes we need to help ourselves so that we can learn to help others.

Take impeccable care of yourself so that you have the energy and joy to serve others.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

For something to achieve we should strive to make things better and be prepared to sacrifice anything in the process including our rest in life, and our selfishness.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

It takes a courageous man to sacrifice his greatest delight to ensure that other people gain happiness.

The greatest sacrifice is when you sacrifice your own happiness for the sake off someone else.

The value of your life has nothing to do with how much money you earn; it is determined by what you give to others.

Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

Be like a Candle which burns itself to give light to others.

Sometimes we have to step down to help somebody up, not because we failed to go up, but as a humble sacrifice to save a great soul.