Service Quotes

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Your willingness to serve God is as important as your service to God.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

Our lives of service and sacrifice are the most appropriate expressions of our commitment to serve the Master and our fellowmen.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

You cannot change what has already happened. You can always change the way you respond.

Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.

I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

Homosexuals want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers.

We’re in the Customer Service business—we just happen to provide airline transportation.

Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, we’re all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers’ expectations every day.

Customer service is the new marketing.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

Worship is not a twenty minute period during a church service, but a lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way.

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.

Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.

I had other priorities in the sixties than military service.

Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs.

The more we give away, the more is given to us.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.

Find what you can do best that renders service to others and do it with all your might.

As a radio personality, I'm a public servant, we all should be public servants in some way shape or form. I feel like my soul purpose is to be of service to others.

You don't lead by lip service, you lead by example.

Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they'll come back. We have to be great every time or we'll lose them.

There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.