Service Quotes

"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."

Barack Obama

"The Simple PathSilence is PrayerPrayer is FaithFaith is LoveLove is ServiceThe Fruit of Service is Peace"

Mother Teresa

"Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you."

Steve Maraboli

"Don't mistake activity with achievement."

John Wooden

"Why pay for an undesirable outcome with someone else? For the same money, you could have paid me to stay at home and do nothing."

Jarod Kintz

"I’ll mark up my services 200%, and then offer them to you at a 50% discount—because I like you so much. That’s the Mother-in-law Discount."

Jarod Kintz

"The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul’s worth."

Shannon L. Alder

"If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.Love grows when people serve."

John Ortberg

"I rather spend every Sunday of my life hanging off a cliff to rescue someone than spend one more time sitting in a pew next to hypocrites that talk about what they will do to better themselves and the world when they get around to it."

Shannon L. Alder

"Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts."

Gordon B. Hinckley

"When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek."

Steve Maraboli

"Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world."

Ramana Maharshi

"When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy."

Steve Maraboli

"Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you."

Shannon L. Alder

"If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything."

Florence Nightingale

"If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence."

Shannon L. Alder

"I don't own the sunset, but I have a free yearly membership to stream whenever it's on, and this is a life perk that makes me wealthy."

Jarod Kintz

"The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others."

Bryant McGill

"Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first."

Shannon L. Alder

"There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept you. The other is as though loving and accepting another person is all that matters. Often, when you choose the second you get the first."

Shannon L. Alder

"Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table."

Shannon L. Alder

"If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157)"

Jean-Yves Leloup

"The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about."

Shannon L. Alder

"Sensibly, it is better to be an illiterate or less educated and make an earning of an amount X than be highly or moderately academically qualified and yet be paid X or even less or marginally high."

Anuj Somany

"The sun still lives his silent vows to the moon, by bowing to kiss her feet whenever she walks in the room."

Curtis Tyrone Jones

"On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing."

José Ortega y Gasset, The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature

"Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in his sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage."

Francis of Assisi

"Service to humanity is service to God."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

"As long as you are ready to pay this price for living in the light (knowledge) the darkness (ignorance) becomes a servant to you."

Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

"We must sincerely serve."

Lailah Gifty Akita

"It feels great to share life."

Lailah Gifty Akita

"We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service."

Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena: Selected Writings

"Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life."

John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

"Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?"

Lailah Gifty Akita

"You are serving someone for the rest of your life, not knowing a time must come when you must also be served."

Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

"The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect."

Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

"I have to serve with all my might."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

"Our daily prayer ought to be: Please universe, help me help myself and help me show others how to help themselves."

Kamand Kojouri

"The more you become aware of and respond to the needs of others, the richer your own life becomes."

Mollie Marti

"Life is a sacred service."

Lailah Gifty Akita

"Let these words be your guide; money or no money, houses or no houses, cars or no cars, never turn down the divine assignment of God for your life. Become an inspiration to another life through good service and healthy relationship."

Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

"Sacred service is sacrifice."

Lailah Gifty Akita

"A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to pray. Just when I start to hear the prayer, everyone pops up to sing. And what does the stupid sermon have to do with God? Who knows what God thinks of current events? Who cares?"

John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

"Serve the Lord with what you have — your substance, strength, knowledge, and ability"

Sunday Adelaja

"A steward in the above scripture is a servant who serves."

Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

"Serving others is one of the bases for you to have or to enjoy a fullness of purpose in life."

Sunday Adelaja

"To serve others is not only by hands but by mouth as well."

Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

"To be able to impact the society and to be an agent of change, you have to make yourself available to serve."

Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

"There is satisfaction in serving."

Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

"Use your knowledge and physical strength. You have the opportunity today, start living for Him"

Sunday Adelaja

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