Service Quotes

"Retail is a customer business. You’re trying to take care of the customer—solve something for the customer."

- Erik Nordstrom

"The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."

- Robert Peel

"For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season."

- Darren Criss

"The purpose of karma yoga is to transcend the bondage of selfish genes through the service of others."

- Amit Ray

"When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world."

- B.K.S. Iyengar

"Keep up the prayer and pay the prescribed alms. Whatever good you store up for yourselves, you will find it with God: He sees everything you do."

- Quran 2:110

"And they were not commanded except to worship Allah, [being] sincere to Him in religion, inclining to truth, and to establish prayer and to give zakah. And that is the correct religion."

- Quran

"So pray to your Lord and sacrifice [to Him alone]."

- Quran

"Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again."

- Bob Marley

"In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it."

- Laurence Fishburne

"The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: 'Whoever recommends and helps a good cause becomes a partner therein, and whoever recommends and helps an evil cause shares in its burdens.'"

- The Holy Quran, Chapter 4, Verse 85

"So whoever does an atom’s weight of good will see it."

- Quran 99:7

"Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again."

- William Shakespeare

"Farewell, my friends! I go to glory."

- Gustav Mahler

"Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country."

- George Washington

"Better than honor and glory, and History’s iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men."

- Richard Watson Gilder

"Through selfless service, you will always be fruitful and find the fulfillment of your desires"

- Bhagavad Gita

"Through selfless service, you will always be fruitful and find the fulfillment of your desires."

- Bhagavad Gita

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

- John Wooden

"The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others."

- St. John Chrysostom

"Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run."

- George Herbert

"There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive."

- Thomas Shepard

"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Your commitment to protecting the nation makes it more just and safer."

"By giving your life to something bigger than yourself, you are the real heroes of our nation."

"Establish prayer and give zakah and loan Allah a goodly loan. And whatever good you put forward for yourselves – you will find it with Allah. It is better and greater in reward."

"The ignorant work for their own profit, Arjuna; the wise work for the welfare of the world, without thought for themselves."

"The wise should work without attachment, for the welfare of the society."

"Let your aim be the good of all. Then carry out your task in life with an unswerving devotion to truth, refusing to yield to selfish desires or to the errors of human nature."

"The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. #SelflessService #CommunityFirst"