Quotes About Service

If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise. If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell. But if I love thee for love of thyself, then grant me thyself.

Love your customers more than your product and your employees more than your customers and you'll be wildly successful.

Leadership always benefits the greater good.

At the heart of every successful organization is a title-less person.

You don't need a title to be a leader in life. And the simple fact of having a title won't make you a leader.

Genuine leaders make things better not just for themselves but for others, whether or not their contribution results in financial reward or popular recognition. (...) most people I think of leaders are untitled (...) they achieve greatness by working quietly in their organizations and communities, in their own lives, and in helping those around them.

Everything we were grabbing for, we are to instead give. It is the only way to truly seize it.

Not-so-fun-fact: If the people who work most closely with your ministry end up wanting nothing to do with Jesus, it is no longer a ministry.

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

What I have never been able to tolerate is the prospect that my few years on earth will be frittered away filling out the form to verify that I filled out the previous form, or worse, toiling in the service of some enterprise that perpetuates the things I hate: war, corporate bullying, bureaucratic hoop-jumping, plunder of nature, and more hours tethered to electronic screens. I was willing to work, but I wanted my work to matter—to repair land and cities, to cultivate peace and justice.

God wants you to fight in a different way, and for a greater good, or he would not have put you where you are.

Pino saw the trials of the past few weeks in a different light, and he felt excited and filled with new purpose. "You want me to guide them, Father?" Pino asked. "The three Jews?" "Three of God's children whom he loves," Father Re said. "Will you help them?" "Of course. Yes." The priest put his hand on Pino's shoulder. "I want you to understand that you will be risking your life.

The only way to make my life matter is to choose less. And the first thing I need less of is me. Once that issue is settled, I am in a position to live a life that lasts longer than I do.

Francis also did everything in his power to get his people to stay at the bottom or at the edge and never at the top. He didn't even want his friars to be priests/clergy. He said, "You can't preach the gospel if you're part of the structures of power.

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

Thank you for calling customer service. If you're calm and rational, press 1. If you're a whiner, press 2. If you're a hot head, press 3

I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.

The food on the plane was fit for a king. "Here, King!"

I didn't go to college, but if I did, I would've taken all my tests at a restaurant, 'cause 'The customer is always right'.

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

Waiters are the help, dear. It's like falling in love with a blender!

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.