Quotes about Service

When we send the whole church to build the church (instead of leaving it to the religious professionals), God's power is unleashed in full force.

Servants don't try to give the Master a better idea; servants don't complain that they think the task is stupid; servants don't pause to consider whether they're in the mood to do it; servants don't decide if the task is within their dignity to perform. They just do it.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

At Hampton I not only learned that it was not a disgrace to labour, but learned to love labour, not alone for its financial value, but for labour's own sake and for the independence and self-reliance which the ability to do something which the world wants done brings. At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.

In order to be successful in any kind of undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause.

The one thing that is most worth living for—and dying for, if need be—is the opportunity of making some one else more happy and more useful.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. This

I felt from the first that mere book education was not all that the young people of that town needed. I began my work at eight o'clock in the morning, and, as a rule, it did not end until ten o'clock at night. In addition to the usual routine of teaching, I taught the pupils to comb their hair, and to keep their hands and faces clean, as well as their clothing. I gave special attention to teaching them the proper use of the tooth-brush and the bath.

The effect of this movement, or revolution, as I have called it, is not to "tear down and level up" in order to bring about an artificial equality, but to give every individual a chance "to make good," to determine for himself his place and position in the community by the character and quality of the service he is able to perform.

This institution does not exist for your education alone; it does not exist for your comfort and happiness altogether, although those things are important, and we keep them in mind; it exists that we may give you intelligence, skill of hand, and strength of mind and heart; and we help you in these ways that you, in turn, may help others.