Service Quotes

"Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."

- Danny Thomas

"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."

- Captain Scott O'Grady

""Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.""

- Muhammad Ali

"If you're watching to learn.... **Watch!** If you're watching for a break.... **Speak up!** If you're watching for me to stop.... **Leave!** If you're here to help.... **Grab a shovel!**"

- Original Composition

"In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a-faces. But in the end those incredulous to what you put up with to help, no longer matter. It's not between you and those snobs, but with whom you have given your hand to lift, and of course to God who is watching and noting it in your book."

- Inspired by Mother Theresa

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe."

- Andre Agassi

"Love in action is service to the world."

- Lynne Namka

"The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them."

- David Green

"Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others."

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"I just try to go out and help others, to do whatever I can to make a difference."

- Dakota Meyer

"In proportion as one renders service he becomes great."

- Booker T. Washington

"You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for which you get not pay but the privilege of doing it."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can."

- John Wesley

"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others."

- Audrey Hepburn

"It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every person has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man's help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Help one another; there's no time like the present and no present like the time."

- James Durst

"We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a loving cat or dog from an animal shelter."

- Amy Jackson

"I’ve been the lead in movies, on television shows and nominated for Emmy. But the best thing I can say about me is that people who can't stop drinking come up to me and say, 'Can you help me? ' And I can say, 'Yes. '"

- Matthew Perry

"The healthy person finds happiness in helping others. Thus, for him, unselfishness is selfish."

- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) saying

"Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life."

- Cesar Chavez

"The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth."

- Muhammad Ali

"Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will to love or not; in this we stand or fall."

- John Milton

"Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal."

- David A. Morse

"Teaching the world to be careful is a constructive service worthy of God’s great gift of life to man."

- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harold H. Burton

"Someone asked the anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978), "What is the first sign you look for, to tell you of an ancient civilization?" The interviewer had in mind a tool or article of clothing. Ms. Mead surprised him by answering, a "healed femur". When someone breaks a femur, they can't survive to hunt, fish or escape enemies unless they have help from someone else. Thus, a healed femur indicates that someone else helped that person, rather than abandoning them and saving themselves. Isn't that what we in philanthropy are all about? Healing femurs of one sort or another?"

"When one member of our family is in need, everyone deploys to offer aid."