Service Quotes

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. (Mahatma Gandhi)
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Groucho Marx
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. View quote
Edmund Burke
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service. View quote
Albert Einstein
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape. View quote
Robert Frost
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. View quote
Al Gore
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. View quote
James A. Garfield
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. (Northrop Frye)
We seldom call any body lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some Service. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. View quote
Audre Lorde
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. View quote
William Lyon Phelps
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants' creed, the bees' creed. View quote
John Galsworthy
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. View quote
Horatio Nelson
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. View quote
Peter Drucker
Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. View quote
Albert Einstein
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed. View quote
John F. Kennedy
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal. (Hjalmar Branting)
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. View quote
Charles Darwin
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. View quote
Giovanni Boccaccio
Death is a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh. View quote
Marcus Aurelius