Top 100 Service Life Quotes
#1. Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.
J.I. Packer
#2. The goal of life is not the earning of money, but the service of God.p.114
Ramakrishna
#4. Stories don't care who takes part in them. All that matters if that the story gets told, that the story repeats. Or, if you prefer to think of it like this: stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.
Terry Pratchett
#5. Service of self is best developed in dealings of service to others.
Tyler J. Hebert
#6. You can reach the greatest height in the service of the Lord
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#8. Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#10. All products are a multiplication of time invested
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#11. The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.
Albert Einstein
#12. Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
Epictetus
#13. Living a fruitful and purposeful life has eternal blessings
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#15. Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.
Dorothy Height
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Life is given for increase and multiplication of the glory of God
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#19. It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion - these were the things that counted in life. When you gave purely, the honor in giving, and that was honor enough.
Scott O'Grady
#21. I actually think the civil service, who are the malignancy at the heart of public life, have consciously prevented, talked ministers out of, made it difficult regulatory-wise, to allow more pressure on alternative energy sources to grow.
Ken Livingstone
#22. God can do more with a few days of your time if given completely to Him, than He can with a whole life characterized by a half-hearted service.
Billy Graham
#23. There is nothing to achieve, there is only surrender to a life of service.
Reshad Feild
#24. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know?
John Green
#26. Always see the positive aspect of every situation you find yourself
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#27. 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
#29. There are things we can't undo, but perhaps there is a kind of constructive remorse that could transform regrettable acts into something of service to life.
Gail Godwin
#30. For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
William James
#31. I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine.
Max Burns
#33. Work becomes satisfaction when it is in the area of your calling
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#34. I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.
Wes Moore
#36. Go to the root of the problems of people and discover ways to save them
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#37. You have been asked to take notice of the sayings of dying men - this is mine: that a life spent in the service of God and communion with Him is the most pleasant life that anyone can live in this world.
Matthew Henry
#38. The content of a man is the life he possesses inside
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#39. Jesus promises a life in which we increasingly have to stretch out our hands and be led into places where we would rather not go.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#40. A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Gautama Buddha
#41. Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.
Pope Francis
#42. I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
Queen Elizabeth II
#43. One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.
Marcus Aurelius
#44. At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.
Mother Teresa
#45. Life is about giving yourself away in the service of others. Life is not about living just to live.
Debasish Mridha
#47. The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
Nikola Tesla
#48. Reconsider your life and see how you can make things work for yourself
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#49. Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck.
Timothy Keller
#50. In my own life, I have always viewed personal mastery as simply a medium through which I become capable of providing more service toward my fellow man.
Chris Matakas
#51. 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
#52. Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.
Timothy Keller
#53. I am at your service, my lady, I said, standing and releasing her hand. For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a script to follow when you have absolutely no idea what to say.
Patrick Rothfuss
#55. You cannot fulfill your mandate without fulfilling your purpose and calling in life
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#56. Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life - all life - is in the service of life.
Frank Herbert
#57. i see a young man with potential. A young man who is loyal. Who can do as he is asked and who wants to do something good with his life.
Harry Hart
#58. Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.
Marian Wright Edelman
#59. I'm very grateful that I have one of those faces that seems to blend back into the crowd. A lot of people pay lip service to wanting a normal life, but it's actually very important to me.
Sophia Myles
#60. Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.
Marion G. Romney
#61. 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
#62. You need to combine your calling with your passion
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#63. You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.
Kiefer Sutherland
#65. ...life is a continual process of learning, working hard, rising up, and then being humbled. Sliding over, then sliding over again. And again.
Tim Hiller
#66. In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City.
Thomas L. Smith
#68. 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
#69. The Navy is much more than a job; much more than service to country. It is a way of life. It gets in your blood.
Albert F. Pratt
#71. A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.
Jean Vanier
#72. We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.
William Griffith Thomas
#73. Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.
Nathaniel Branden
#74. Life is a frail and transitory thing, but it has been given a higher purpose and dignity through the revelation of God's Teaching to Israel, and the resulting dedication of an entire people to God's service.
Joseph Hertz
#76. I'd like to have another opportunity to serve. I believe in service. I enjoy it. I also like coming and going, you know, because I think that my private-sector life has contributed to how I think about public-sector challenges and what I do in the public sector.
Deval Patrick
#77. Do not wait until you are rich before you start working for the Lord
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#78. Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riches of God's grace.
John Stott
#80. It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.
David Livingstone
#81. I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support of many other people, I would be exempt from having to deal with yet another crisis in my life. I was wrong.
Debbie Ford
#83. In life, be daring, look for adventure, provide the service and love the nature.
Debasish Mridha
#84. The Son of God reveals Himself in me, and out of devotion to Him service becomes my everyday way of life.
Oswald Chambers
#85. I don't have a life of my own. I've put myself and my life at the service of the people. If necessity dictates I run, I run.. go to jail, I go to jail.. die, I die.My private aspirations are exactly the general aspirations of the people.
Yusuf Idris
#86. Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
Almost.
It is death by living.
N.D. Wilson
#87. You is blessin' folks with your dollars and service, but a dollar bill and plate of food ain't changin' a life. That takes love.
Denver Moore
#88. Your calling is buried in your background on earth
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#89. Life is supposed to be used in fulfilling our individual purposes of creation
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#90. Don't waste time on employment, discover yourself today
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#92. We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.
Lawton Chiles
#93. The service members who defend our way of life ask very little in return, but they deserve teachers who will be as relentless in teaching their children as the military is in protecting our interests at home and abroad.
Tucker Elliot
#94. The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
Walter Pater
#95. Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.
Doris Haddock
#96. Don't exert all your energy on employment, locate your purpose
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#97. Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.
Sue Mallory
#98. No span of steel will tolerate ... neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.
Joseph Straus
#99. 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
#100. I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.
Hillary Clinton
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