Sayings About Great Service

#1. Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.

Mollie Marti

#2. I was referred to her by a guardian in northern Wilmington, a guy who handles people that are moving into nursing homes. They leave all their stuff there, and we have to empty the houses out. She provides a great service

Richard Harris

#3. The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.

Atul Gawande

#4. I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.

Sigmund Freud

#5. There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#6. To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.

A.W. Tozer

#7. Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Benjamin Disraeli

#8. It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#9. I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."

Tony Robbins

#10. I have been fascinated by men and women of courage. People who took brave decisions in the service of great causes especially when more comfortable and far less dangerous alternatives were open to them

Gordon Brown

#11. I worked at Sears in the Woodfield Mall as a gift wrapper. I'm actually a great gift wrapper, and the customers were so nice to me. I was only 16, and eventually Sears put me in customer service because I was so friendly.

Sherri Shepherd

#12. My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an actor. But instead he did two jobs. He did customer service at a hospital and he worked as a waiter at night. He pretty much sacrificed everything for his daughters.

Sherri Shepherd

#13. Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.

Roland Merullo

#14. Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

Pope John Paul II

#15. Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Jim Rohn

#16. The victor powers in the Great War had irresistible force at their disposal if only they could muster the will to deploy it. But they increasingly lacked that will.

Robert Service

#17. I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they're counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they've never been born again.

Adrian Rogers

#18. The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations.

Saad Hariri

#19. In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

Booker T. Washington

#20. Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone-customers, employees, and vendors.

Robert Spector

#21. Don't discount this powerful use of appreciation. It is one of the great secrets of life. It's the feeling and emotion of appreciation that matters most, not the lip service.

D.S. Luca

#22. No one can make you serve customers well. That's because great service is a choice.

Ken Blanchard

#23. After 9/11, I was like many people in New York City and got a little depressed. I began to check myself into The Waldorf Astoria for room service, movies and just to chill. I wanted to contribute to the great city of Manhattan.

Kristin Chenoweth

#24. In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

Jeff Bezos

#25. A great leader makes what is visible in their mind, visible to all.

Ron Kaufman

#26. God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.

John Wesley

#27. Many Christians would prefer to hear "What a great guy" from the crowd rather than "Well done, good and faithful servant" from the Master [Matthew 25:23].

Billy Graham

#28. The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#29. Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects of clearing a plate, carving tableside, or pouring wine, and a lifetime to master the emotional elements of service.

Daniel Humm

#30. Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Friedrich Schiller

#31. Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

Henry Rollins

#32. 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

#33. Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations ... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

LeRoy Neiman

#34. Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

Tallulah Bankhead

#35. Our chief want in life, is,
someone who shall make us do what we can.
This is the service of a friend.
With him we are easily great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#36. Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Ross Perot

#37. Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

Sigmund Freud

#38. I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.

Richard Branson

#39. Most customer service people are great. It's that one customer service person from hell that drives me crazy!

Jon Jones

#40. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws.

John Quincy Adams

#41. All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.

Criss Jami

#42. If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

Horatio Nelson

#43. I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.

Bjorn Lomborg

#44. I've always felt really lucky to get to work with really great filmmakers. For me, the whole objective is just to hopefully be of service to what they want.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#45. By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#46. By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

Thomas Jefferson

#47. At the end of the day, if you have a great product and service paired with the wrong pricing strategy / business model, you don't have a business.

Richie Norton

#48. Take as an example the wisdom of Joseph and his submission. Do battle in chastity and service until you make yourself a king (cf. Gen. 41).

Pachomius The Great

#49. When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.

Adele Faber

#50. Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.

Dana Spiotta

#51. Getting service right is more than just a nice to do; it's a must do. American consumers are willing to spend more with companies that provide outstanding service - ultimately, great service can drive sales and customer loyalty.

Jim Bush

#52. I am a great success, not because of what I have, but because, through service, I found enduring happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#53. The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset.

Seth

#54. If there's any way that I can be of service to people who are going through something painful in their lives, even though the witch world is heightened, then that's great.

Rachel Boston

#55. I'm a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with some of the challenges that we're going to encounter in our own period of service.

Thomas S. Monson

#56. I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

Emeril Lagasse

#57. 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

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

Kevin Stirtz

#59. You can't always hire great service providers, but you can create them.

Ron Kaufman

#60. Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.

Nathan Myhrvold

#61. Service Marketing delivers when great communication meets great service design.

Peter Bowman

#62. The ambition of most beings is just to stay alive, overeat, spend too much, and avoid hard work. I'm happy that I can achieve much more than that ... and we all die sooner or later. A death in service of a great ideal is a fine thing.

Karen Traviss

#63. The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.

Max De Pree

#64. Great news! Hosting Oscars counts five hours toward my community service!

Billy Crystal

#65. Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience.

John Sculley

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

David B. Haight

#67. The Anglican service today was more familiar to me from movies. Like one of the great Shakespeare speeches, the graveside oration, studded in fragments in the memory, was a succession of brilliant phrases, book titles, dying cadences that breathed life, pure alertness, along the spine.

Ian McEwan

#68. The great lesson of the Internet revolution is not that people never want personal service, just that they won't pay for personal service that does not add real value to the transaction.

David F. D'Alessandro

#69. In a great library, you get into society in the widest sense ... From that great crowd you can choose what companions you please, for in these silent gatherings ... the highest is at the service of the lowest with a grand humility. In a library you become a true citizen of the world.

W. Somerset Maugham

#70. One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#71. Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Anatole France

#72. A great leader often sacrifices greatly in the service of others.

Debasish Mridha

#73. It was easy for me in my bathrobe to provide really great customer service. As an introvert, it's really much easier to do than when standing in a retail store.

Sophia Amoruso

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#75. When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs-in the service of birthing women, not their master.

Christiane Northrup

#76. I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

Hugh Shelton

#77. Am I to admire a man who injures me in an awkward and mistaken attempt to protect me, and to despise a man who to earn a good income performs for me some great and lasting service?

George J. Stigler

#78. Customer service is the new marketing.

Derek Sivers

#79. You need more than just a great idea. Your product or service must add an enormous amount of value to some industry. If the idea isn't completely new, it has to be better, cheaper, or more efficient than what we already have.

Jose Ferreira

#80. The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future.

Aly Khan

#81. Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.

Rick Warren

#82. Any great gift of power or talent is a burden ... But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law.

Susan Cooper

#83. I really feel that most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them. Making children do something hard can, in the long run, be a great parental service.

Amy Chua

#84. The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.

Jeff Bezos

#85. The Lord has given you a heart open to great horizons; do not be afraid to commit your life completely to the service of Christ and His Gospel! Listen to Him as He says again today: 'The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.

Pope John Paul II

#86. Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.

Sergio De La Pava

#87. I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.

Melita Norwood

#88. The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, Whom will we serve?

Frederick William Faber

#89. We are gripped by God's will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God's love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.

Albert Schweitzer

#90. I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Queen Elizabeth II

#91. Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.

Bill Cobbs

#92. The truth is, my dad was a great driver. I mean, he could handle an automobile. He loved speed. He used to joke that his one regret was he didn't join the volunteer fire service so he could drive the ambulance.

Joe Biden

#93. Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man taken by himself.

Matthew Arnold

#94. I'm not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that's going to invert.

Jeff Bezos

#95. You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.

Denis Waitley

#96. Giving great service requires the right people and the right service tools.

Ron Kaufman

#97. When you are committed to living a life in service to the most high, the choices to be great, to serve and be served, to love and be loved are apparent.

Debbie Ford

#98. What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it with their situation, all in the service of making a great horror movie. It was fresh.

Joss Whedon

#99. I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both coasts and in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Rockville, Maryland, and have had a great time doing it.

Alan G. Poindexter

#100. Worldly ease is a great foe to faith; it loosens the joints of holy valour, and snaps the sinews of sacred courage. The balloon never rises until the cords are cut; affliction doth this sharp service for believing souls.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon