Quotes about Service

Never expect God to do for you what you don't do to others.

Never expect God to do for you what you don't do for others.

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

Serving others is the best way of applying our faith in such a way that it leads to real transformation and change.

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.