Service Quotes

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Beran Wolfe

Common folk, not statesmen, nor generals nor great men of affairs, but just simple plain men and women, can do something to build a better, peaceful world. The future hope of peace lies with such personal

Henry Cadbury, accepting the Nob

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated.

Frank F. Warren

Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Steve Leonard

Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.

George Vaillant

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.

Cicero Pro Ligario

When I consider how my light is spentE're half my days, in this dark world and wide,And that one Talent which is death to hide,Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bentTo serve therewith my Maker, and presentMy true account, least he returning chide,Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd,I fondly ask; But patience to preventThat murmur, soon replies, God doth not needEither man's work or his own gifts, who bestBear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his StateIs Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speedAnd post o're Land and Ocean without rest:They also serve who only stand and waite.

John Milton, On His Blindness

Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

Karl Albrecht

I suppose you are going home to see your families and friends. For the service you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged I present you sincere thanks for myself and the country.

Abraham Lincoln

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.

Djuna Barnes

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Danish proverb

Joy can only be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

John Adams

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Jim Rohn

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

Francis Bacon, 1603