Quotes About Giving Service To Others

#1. 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

#2. The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#3. I want to give [my records] all away before some fool plays disco at my funeral, and then the record gets stuck, and nobody can tell, and the service goes on forever!

Robert Patrick

#4. We live to give.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

Dolores Huerta

#6. Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship; entitlement and expectation will poison it.

Steve Maraboli

#7. You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage.

Debasish Mridha

#8. One does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

Albert Einstein

#9. I felt a complete willingness, without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I tell you, it's a point of no return. After that, you can never go back to completely self-centered living.

Peace Pilgrim

#10. God will open up places of service for you as He sees you are ready. Meanwhile, study the Bible and give yourself a chance to grow.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#11. Giving is an open gate to a great life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. Every gift you give, will multiply a hundred-fold.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. It is the love that we give and the service we render that really is the great payoff.

David B. Haight

#15. Delta Airlines recently proposed giving frequent flyers a controversial perk: the option of paying $5 extra to speak to a customer service agent in the United States, rather than be routed to a call center in India. Public disapproval led Delta to abandon the idea.

Michael J. Sandel

#16. People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.

Charles Garfield

#17. The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.

Gabe Newell

#18. There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

Woodrow Wilson

#19. 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

#20. You really need to give us much love as you possibly can. Be kind. Be of service to people, not for you to gain anything but just out of pure love. That's what people are lacking, that pure genuine love.

DeLisha Milton-Jones

#21. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others ... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Thomas A. Edison

#22. There is no such thing as finding true happiness by searching for it directly. It must come, if it come at all, indirectly, or by the service, the love, and the happiness we give to others.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#23. Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it is what we give in charity that nurtures our souls. If time is not available daily, reserve at least a few hours every week for some worthwhile act of charity.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#24. Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of others. So it's not just about sitting and cultivating caring mindfulness. It's building up a way of being and then using it for the service of others.

Matthieu Ricard

#25. The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."

Wilfred Grenfell

#26. Before you ever receive the wonderful treasures of a happy life, you must first give. Give of yourself. Be of service to others. Only what you give can be multiplied back into your own life.

Mary Kay Ash

#27. Remember, purpose is about giving ... All you can do with your life is to give it away in the service of others.

Wayne W. Dyer

#28. Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.

Denis Waitley

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Ideal Love, stepped down to the level of the practical, day-to-day life, must mean the service of each to all within his or her sphere, a delicate consideration of others, a control that gives rise to peace, and cessation from every thought of cruelty and lust.

Nilakanta Sri Ram

#35. Leadership is service, not position.

Tim Fargo

#36. He had lived to please himself instead of God all those years, giving little more than lip service to His holy laws. And now when Zechariah cried out to God, his numberless sins swallowed up his prayers before they reached heaven. His guilt filled the yawning gulf between him and God.

Lynn Austin

#37. Turns out fixing people up is not how we make money. It's failing to fix people up while still giving them hope that soon we might.

Laurie Frankel

#38. And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.

Sri Chinmoy

#39. Being an entrepreneur means that you are sort of inventing something new. You're giving birth to a company. You're giving birth to a new product, a new service. And that's always exciting.

Anousheh Ansari

#40. Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

Francis Quarles

#41. If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.

Michel Odent

#42. A big corporation is more or less blamed for being big; it is only big because it gives service. If it doesn't give service, it gets small faster than it grew big.

William S. Knudsen

#43. Giving is sharing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#44. Give what you possess.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#45. The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service.

Jim Rohn

#46. Render unto God the things that are God's

Sunday Adelaja

#47. Cent percent swadeshi gives sufficient scope for the most insatiable ambition for service and a satisfaction of every kind of talent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. 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

#49. I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

Andrew Carnegie

#50. The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it ... mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want.

William Shakespeare

#51. 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

#52. In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

Swami Vivekananda

#53. If we have the power and the means, then we must help.

Seth Adam Smith

#54. five different love languages: quality time, the giving of gifts, acts of service, physical touch, or words of encouragement.

Kate Kennedy

#55. The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.

Kabir

#56. Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.
Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.
Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#57. The greatest life is to share, to sacrifice and to serve.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#58. A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

James Franco

#59. If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.

Sam Walton

#60. Even if I have to face death a thousand times for the sake of my Motherland, I shall not be sorry. Oh, Lord! Grant me a hundred births inIndia. But grant me this, too, that each time I may give up my life in the service of the Motherland.

Ram Prasad Bismil

#61. The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

Charles M. Schwab

#62. You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

James R Cook

#63. It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom ... So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving ... help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow ... from small but deliberate deeds!

Spencer W. Kimball

#64. Service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact.

Lilian Whiting

#65. Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.

Gerald Edelman

#66. God's grace is the strength for every good deed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#67. Creating the Minerva Awards. I really have enjoyed that. I have to say that I moaned and groaned about this job but the way I have it now, I enjoy everything about it. I enjoy giving people service opportunities.

Maria Shriver

#68. I demand riches in definite terms; I have a definite plan for acquiring riches;I am engaged in carrying out my plan, and I am giving an equivalent,in useful service, of the value of those riches I demand.

Andrew Carnegie