Service Quotes

"Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself."

"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape"

"Small service is true service, while it lasts."

"Room service? Send up a larger room."

"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."

"No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist."

"During Senator Ashcroft's quarter-century of public service, he has taken strong positions on a range of important issues in the range of the Justice Department, ... Unfortunately and often he has used the power of his high office to advance his personal views in spite of the law of the land."

"No man is more than another unless he does more than another."

"Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living."

"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large."

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

"When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self."

"How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?"

"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."

"No man can help another without helping himself."

"He is great who confers the most benefits."

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?"

"I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race."

"Great Days of Service."

"Four months later, I was in a pool and I had no idea what I was doing. I had an idea, a dress, and a lot of determination, but I had no idea how to make it happen."