Famous Service Quotes

"Sidney Godophin," said Charles , "is never in the way and never out of the way."
-- Thomas Babington Macaulay

A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

After the verb "To Love"..."To Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world. -Bertha Von Suttner.
-- Bertha Von Suttner

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this. -Elbert Hubbard.
-- Elbert Hubbard

And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
-- Bible

And Master Kingston, this I will say--had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
-- Pierre De Bourdeilles

Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go.
-- William Shakespeare

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. -Kahlil Gibran.
-- Kahlil Gibran

God curse Moawiyah. If I had served God so well as I have served him, he would never have damned me to all eternity.
-- Unattributed Author

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. -Sally Koch.
-- Sally Koch

Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot.
-- Jim Elliot

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? -Vincent Van Gogh.
-- Vincent Van Gogh

I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me with beating.
-- William Shakespeare

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
-- Seneca

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Up to his nest again, I shall not live in vain. -Emily Dickinson.
-- Emily Dickinson

If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should not have great account to render at my death.
-- Francis Bacon

If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. -Loretta Girzartis.
-- Loretta Girzartis

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. -Norman Cousins.
-- Norman Cousins

Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
-- William Shakespeare