Quotes about Service

Success is more than just power or not violating the rights of others; it is the privilege of contributing to the betterment of others.

My Influence My life shall touch a dozen lives Before this day is done. Leave countless marks of good or ill, E'er sets the evening sun. This, the wish I always wish, The prayer I always pray; Lord, may my life help others' lives It touches by the way.

Jesuit theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, "The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others." Anyone who has unselfishly helped another person knows this to be true.

Give first, no matter what your circumstances may be.

If you are willing to make success about giving rather than gaining, you will find your life to be greatly rewarding.

Produce second-mile followers. If you go out of your way to care about others and help them, then they will go out of their way to help you when you ask them to.

The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in so doing will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern, rather than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.

Your ultimate goal as a leader should be to work hard enough and strategically enough that you have more than enough to give and share with others.

Following Christ's example, we have to learn to give ourselves completely. Anything else is not enough.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?