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Service Quotations
25 of 57 quotations from Rob Kall's personal Quotation database
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Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real
happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for
the common good is the greatest creed.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at
correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and
especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.
ROGER BABSON
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something
for others—and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
All service ranks the same with God.
ROBERT BROWNING
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and
voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. The men of talent
are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order
the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go
to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve
the welfare of mankind.
W. G. SUMNER
To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed
the wounds; To toil and not to seek for rest; To labour and not ask for any reward Save
that of knowing that we do Thy will.
IGNATIUS LOYOLA
One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is
Jesus' statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody
has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed
except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew
that.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I
needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and
you came to visit me . . . I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of
these brothers of mine, you did for me.
JESUS OF NAZARETH Matthew 25:35–36, 40
The measure of a man is not the number of his servants but
in the number of people whom he serves.
DR. PAUL D. MOODY
I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or
pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public
good, becomes honorable by being necessary.
NATHAN HALE
There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and
young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the
dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the
humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
The noblest service comes from nameless hands, And the best
servant does his work unseen.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Service is nothing but love in work clothes.
ANONYMOUS
"I never doubted... the existence of a Deity;...that
the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man...."
Franklin, Benjamin, his Autobiography
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than
to rule.
Albert Einstein
Success is not measured by the money earned but by the
service rendered.
Roy L Smith
Richard Nixon... proved there is no political
wrongdoing so scandalous that it cannot be expiated by years of useful service; no
humiliation so painful that it cannot be overcome by decades of selfless sagacity; no
personal doldrums so deep that they cannot be dispersed by a gutsy engagement with life.
William Safire, NY TImes essay, 4-25-94
'Tis mad idolatry
To make the service greater than the god.
--William Shakespeare
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.
--John Burroughs
My responsibility, our responsiblity as lucky Americans, is
to try to give back to this country as much as it has given to us, as we continue our
American journey together.
Powell, Colin L.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do
know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found
how to serve.
Schweitzer, Albert
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most
important that you do it.
-- Gandhi
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Madame de Stael
the service of God is not intended for God's perfection,
but for our own.
Maimonides
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