In Service To Others Quotes

#1. What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.

Steve-O

#2. But how can I give to God what is rightfully His? There is only one way; that is in service to others.

Charles L. Allen

#3. If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind/body/ego.

Wayne Dyer

#4. The richest persons are those who give most in service to others.

Napoleon Hill

#5. The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

John F. Kerry

#6. The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds ... but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

Henri Nouwen

#7. Learn what you are good at and exploit it in service to others.

Larry Winget

#8. Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life.

Caroline Myss

#9. The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone ... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.

Thomas S. Monson

#10. True greatness, true leadership, is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

J. Oswald Sanders

#11. (The mature person) pours himself out in service to others.

Laozi

#12. The proof of true love for God is in service to others.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.

Bill Crawford

#14. We are living in a time of uncertainty, anxiety, fear, and despair. It is essential that you become aware of the light, power, and strength within each of you, and that you learn to use those inner resources in service of your own and others' growth.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#15. That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others.

Lucy Larcom

#16. You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

Herb Kelleher

#17. I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service. Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy.

Keke Palmer

#19. Spiritual seekers let their light shine so that others may see; not only to give service by example, but also to constantly remind themselves that spirituality is most gloriously embodied in our actions, our habits of being.

Bell Hooks

#20. There's always someone to help, there's always some way in which you can perfect yourself through service to others.

Frederick Lenz

#21. A service culture doesn't happen by accident. The company is always a reflection of the person at the helm. Their attitude, their values, and their commitment to service excellence will drive the actions of others in the organization. Always has ... always will.

Mac Anderson

#22. From that day on I go to each door in turn and sing the three songs that I remember from school. Within a few days I'm overwhelmed how happy they appear to be when they hear or recognize me.

Corinne Hofmann

#23. I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves

Spencer W. Kimball

#24. This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

Joshua Chamberlain

#25. When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. I chose to take the oath of office with my personal copy of the Bhagavad Gita because its teachings have inspired me to be a servant-leader, dedicating my life in the service of others and to my country.

Tulsi Gabbard

#27. Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

Robert Baden-Powell

#28. Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.

Duane Elmer

#29. Discover your uniqueness and learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.

Larry Winget

#30. If you want to be the best, find the best in others.

Ron Kaufman

#31. Sometimes we forget to, or feel guilty when, we take time to nourish our own souls. It is not selfish to spiritually fill ourselves because we need that time to find the delicate balance in our lives. Only then can we truly be of service to others.
Debra Siegrist

Arin Murphy-Hiscock

#32. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Jennifer Handford

#33. Grant me courage to serve others;
For in service there is true life.

Cesar Chavez

#34. Sometimes love is letting others use you; Lending yourself to help them go further in their journey.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#35. I'm benefitting from the sacrifices and seeds sown by Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, and so many others. Those of us who are beneficiaries owe it to have a season of service in which we try to give back.

Terri Sewell

#36. Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.

Wayne Muller

#37. To celebrate the heart of Christmas is to forget ourselves in the service of others.

Henry C. Link

#38. America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.

John Olver

#39. I am acutely aware that all I have been able to achieve has been in large part due to circumstances outside my control. This is why I teach, and this is why I write. I want to be one of those opportunities for others. Perhaps this is the true measure of success.

Chris Matakas

#40. the only thing you can do with your life is give it away. You'll find yourself feeling purposeful if you can find a way to always be in the service of others.

Wayne W. Dyer

#41. Hold all men in mind as being healthy, happy, and prosperous. When you do this you are helping others and sowing good for yourself. Always send out thoughts of love and service. They will come back to you laden with their kind.

Venice J. Bloodworth

#42. When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.

Wayne W. Dyer

#43. To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.

Ezra Taft Benson

#44. Our society cultivates guilt feelings in women such that many of us still feel guilty if we are anything less than an emotional service station to others.

Harriet Lerner

#45. One of the great underlying principles governing our life is service. Most of us have to work, but do we serve? Do we work in a spirit of service? Do we work for Life and our fellows? Or do we merely work for self, in order to make a living?

Henry Thomas Hamblin

#46. Providing great customer service is the most natural activity in the world. It's fun to help others because it feels good.

Kevin Stirtz

#47. Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.

Criss Jami

#48. Your success in life is determined by the extent to which you can humble yourself to serve others

Sunday Adelaja

#49. Their willingness to help others is arguably the single most important trait that defines them as Newfoundlanders. Today, it is an identity they cling to, in part, because it is something that cannot be taken away from them.

Jim DeFede

#50. The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as 'others' is by awakening to universal consciousness ourselves.

Wei Wu Wei

#51. We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others.

Frederick Lenz

#52. The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.

Charles William Eliot

#53. There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

Elizabeth Berg

#54. It is not enough just to be good. We must be good for something. We must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for our presence. And the good that is in us must be spread to others. This is the measure of our civility.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#55. Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life and the lives of others.

Sylvia Boorstein

#56. It's through my health that I'm able to maintain that every single day and keep light in people until I'm actually of service to others.

Jason Mraz

#57. Don't dedicate all your resources to helping others invest in their calling. Rather, invest in yourself as well

Sunday Adelaja

#58. Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.

Pope Francis

#59. More young people are volunteering than ever before. More people are including service to others on their busy lives' to do list. The promise of America is embedded deep in our DNA, calling us to a much less shallow search for happiness and meaning.

Arianna Huffington

#60. Those who don't believe in the spiritual foundations of their faith, who only pay lip service to the outer shell of their religious rituals, cannot be tolerant of others.

Leo Tolstoy

#61. Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others ... By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#62. The quickest way to change the world is to be of service to others. Show that your love can make a difference in the lives of people and thereby someone else's love can make a difference in your life. By each of us doing that and working together we change the world one inner person at a time.

Dannion Brinkley

#63. I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others.

Chris Matakas

#64. Submission was never meant to be a negative action. Submission is an act of love and service because someone must lead, and the others must follow. Your greatest act of love to your mate is when you submit and that comes in many forms.

Quinn Loftis

#65. 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

#66. The Church is not an automobile showroom - a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#67. 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

#68. I believe we are put on this earth to be of service. It's how I find meaning in my life. And it's fun!

Dana Delany

#69. It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

David Levithan

#70. Our Savior gave Himself in unselfish service. He taught that each of us should follow Him by denying ourselves of selfish interests in order to serve others.

Dallin H. Oaks

#71. You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.

Oprah Winfrey

#72. Service of self is best developed in dealings of service to others.

Tyler J. Hebert

#73. To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need.

Laozi

#74. A COnNeCtworker is a networker who is always taking into account the needs of others. Approaching people with a service attitude to bring them value and build a relationship. Then when that person is looking for a reliable service provider in a particular industry, they will pick the COnNeCtworker.

Michele Jennae

#75. All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.

Abhijit Naskar

#76. Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others. Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service.

Sathya Sai Baba

#77. The greatest service we can provide to others in this life, beginning with those of our own family, is to bring them to Christ.

D. Todd Christofferson

#78. We should put in place a simple, straightforward and accessible way for parents of Dreamers and others with a history of service and contributions to their community to make their case and to be eligible for the same deferred action as their children.

Hillary Clinton

#79. Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.

Ernest Renan

#80. Life is about giving yourself away in the service of others. Life is not about living just to live.

Debasish Mridha

#81. Being of service does not mean we are less than or subservient to anyone or anything. It's a way of being that invites grace and abundance in our daily lives. Being of service means giving to others without expecting anything back.

Zeina Smidi

#82. Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.

Elisabeth Elliot

#83. I have fun. I enjoy my life. And I was hardwired for a deep connection between service, God, and happiness. You kind of need all of those things to be in play for one to have the others.

Will Smith

#84. The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.

Martha Beck

#85. People that do good in the world or that want to do good, that have good intentions and want to help other people, and people that aren't concerned with themselves but more [with] others and helping in service of others - that inspires me.

Daniella Alonso

#86. It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

Martin Sheen

#87. Be confident enough to encourage confidence in others.

Ron Kaufman

#88. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

Epictetus

#89. Many roads open pathways to authenticity. For some it is disciplined practice, for others revelation, for others service. Regardless of how we get in touch with authenticity or how authenticity gets in touch with us, the engagement is ongoing and forever challenging.

Rob Terry

#90. My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent,
renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - good to themselves and the country at large

Swami Vivekananda

#91. May our gratitude find expression in our prayers and our service for others, and in our commitment to live wholly for Christ.

Billy Graham

#92. Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.

John Brunner

#93. Unless we embrace our own heritage of the sacred, we will not only deny the identity of Europe. We will also fail in providing a service to others to which they are entitled.

Pope Benedict XVI

#94. Service to others in their time of need is a privilege and an honor.

Harley King

#95. We know that service is indispensable for bringing us close to the Savior and letting us feel his Spirit. In nothing do we resemble the Savior more than in serving others. So in nothing should we feel greater love and joy than in service.

Chieko N. Okazaki

#96. Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.

Kallam Anji Reddy

#97. It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring

Robyn Davidson

#98. Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father.

Jack H. Goaslind

#99. Modern conveniences grant us more free time to focus on spiritual needs and devote more time to personal service. But the basic element which should never change in the lives of righteous young women is giving service to others.

James E. Faust

#100. Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

George Washington