Service Quotes

"The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it."

- Michael Jordan

"Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff."

- Scott Cook

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Everybody wants to save the earth. No one wants to help mom do the dishes."

- P.J. O'Rourke

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently."

- Warren Buffett

"A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"make your subject and your verb agree to serve...You don't have to know the secod theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve...You don't have to know the secod theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Everybody can be great. . . because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. . . . You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you’re going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money."

- Russell Simmons

"Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Whoever saves the life of one person, it shall be as if he had saved the life of mankind."

- Quran

"In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men."

- Cicero

"I remind my fellows, residents and medical students that what we do is a privilege. People let us into the most intimate aspects of their lives, and they look to us to help guide them through very complex and delicate situations."

- Shikha Jain, MD

"As a caregiver, you see selfless acts everyday."

- Dr. Raj Panjabi

"Never worry about numbers. Help one at a time, and always start with those nearest you."

- Mother Teresa

"If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will."

- Mother Teresa

"Not handouts, but rather hands held."

- Mother Teresa

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand."

- Woodrow Wilson

"There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough."

- Mother Teresa

"Our job as nurses is to cushion the sorrow and celebrate the job, every day, while we are 'just doing our jobs."

- Christine Belle

"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