Quotes about Service
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
— George Bernard Shaw
The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.
— Clayton M. Christensen
We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.
— Tim Tebow
From the beginning, our community has been focused on people outside of Christianity. But that emphasis means that a lot of hard work is represented in every person who is baptized.
— Erwin McManus
Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.
— Desmond Tutu
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
— Ed Koch
I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.
— Max Lucado
There are a lot of people doing social justice things, which is great. But we can't just say, 'Here's some food. Here's some stuff.' We have to be able to give the gospel, share the hope and have a real heart for that.
— Jeremy Camp
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
— Calvin Coolidge
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
— Robert Byrne
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
— Pope Benedict XVI