Service Quotes

“Business is really an altruistic thing. Only by serving others can we serve ourselves.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“Only by serving others can we serve ourselves. Only by improving other peoples lives can we acquire wealth as a result of them paying us or buying the products or services sold by our business.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“Think of all the kinds of businesses that have ever existed. They all had one thing in common. They sold something that people needed, wanted or desired at the time. They sold something that a group of people perceived as something that would improve their lives in some way.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“I am fully convinced now that I shall be able to serve my country better if I am one of the people than if I am a member of the bureaucracy.”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“It's ironic - but in business, the greatest success goes to the greatest servants.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“The Empire values dedication. Especially when it’s unswerving.”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Catalyst - A Rogue One Novel

“To prefer to be the servant rather than the lord of the household is the path of downward mobility in an upwardly mobile culture. To taunt the idols of prestige, honor, and recognition, to refuse to take oneself seriously or to take seriously others who take themselves seriously, and to freely embrace the servant lifestyle—these are the attitudes that bear the stamp of authentic discipleship.”
― Brennan Manning, Reflections for Ragamuffins: Daily Devotions from the Writings of Brennan Manning

“Service is not servitude. - Charlie Trotter”
― Edmund Lawler

“People who wait for your service to go on sale are saying they don’t value you. They like you, but they’d like you better if you were more exploitable.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“Work should be about finding the daily lesson in one's self as well as providing one's daily bread.”
― Larry a Lee, The Federal Plantation: A Tale of Subjugation and Injustice

“My Christian faith has always put a central role of my life and it’s supplies answers to those questions: “who do you think sent the boat?” Answer: God sent the boat. “ what does he expect me to do now?” Answer: now that I am safely ashore, he expects me to send the boat back for someone else.”
― Vinh Chung, Where the Wind Leads: A Refugee Family's Miraculous Story of Loss, Rescue, and Redemption

“Why me? Why am I family and not theirs? Our boats were all set adrift exactly the same location; why did the same wind take our boat in one direction and there’s in another? We were blessed – there’s no other way to say it – but why weren’t they? Were we more worthy in someway? Or are we more deserving of rescue? I don’t see how; my family’s entire contribution to our rescue was up to lie there waiting to die.
The only answer to the question “why?” is “God only knows.” so rather than philosophize about a question I cannot answer I prefer to ask two other questions that are much more practical. “Who do you think sent that the boat?” And “What does he expect me to do now?”

My Christian faith has always played a central role in my life and its supplies answers to those questions: “who do you think sent the boat?” Answer: God sent the boat. “What does he expect me to do now?”Answer: now that I am safely ashore, He expects me to send the boat back for someone else.”
― Vinh Chung, Where the Wind Leads: A Refugee Family's Miraculous Story of Loss, Rescue, and Redemption

“While Bernice didn't much trust a baby-faced physician, she appreciated young men called to serve as preachers and farmers, the highest of callings in her opinion, cultivators of souls and the land.”
― Talya Tate Boerner, Bernice Runs Away

“The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.”
― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, The Training Of The Zen Buddhist Monk

“There is no support like sacrifice.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“My southern Restaurant complaint:
"it's not ice tea without ice.”
― Wyatt B. Pringle, Jr.

“The greatest wisdom is service.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Service is the noblest way to leave footprints in the sands of time.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“In service comes true illumination. A light that lasts.”
― Christopher Cantwell, Star Wars: Obi-Wan - A Jedi's Purpose

“The most incredible service you can render to yourself is to clearly define WHY you are here and live it out.”
― Daniel ANIKOR

“What we have is the now, the working for others. To be of service, to celebrate your life. We must nurture the love that we have created.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The hexarchate was a terrible place to live, but it would be an even worse one if no one with a conscience consented to serve it.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Raven Stratagem

“Inspiration for a soul to do any work is service to others and God.”
― Anirudh Agrawal, The Science of Spiritual Enlightenment: A Book for Eternity

“I think the force that matter feels when it is being drawn to serve life is love.”
― T.S. Stribling

“If I give up the service, I shall not be in want of work to
keep my hands full. Teaching, social service, co-operative credit work, journalism, village organization work, these are so many things to keep thousands of energetic young men busy. Personally, I should like teaching and journalism at present”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“If you are able to serve a living being by your body, mind, words, and wealth who is neglected and cannot even ask for help, then understand that service was given to you by God and just that one service will become a means for your well-being.”
― Shri Hit Premanand Govind Sharan Ji Maharaj

“Ordinary action-even good deeds-feed the ego; service dissolves the ego and awakens the real Self.”
― Swami Sharnanand ji Maharaj

“To be a servant is to be liberated from self-concern. It is to be so fully devoted to the common good that one hardly thinks of one’s own wants and needs at all.”
― Ralph C. Wood, The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth

“I’m told the role of the Jedi is to serve and defend.”
“You were told wrongly,” C’baoth countered. “The role of the Jedi is to lead and guide, and to destroy all threats.”
― Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Outbound Flight

“Spare me that I may serve.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas