Quotes about Service

Most gifts emerge in the context of serving people.

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man's help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.