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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Daily Quote:
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Service

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Always do more than is required of you.
Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.
And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. [Mark 10:44]
Anything done for another is done for oneself.
Be alert to give service -- what counts most in life is what we do for others.
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.
Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.
Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.
Every day use your magic to be of service to others.
Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
Find a need and fill it.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]
Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
God likes help when helping people.
He is great who confers the most benefits.
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.
He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.
He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
I am all about caring. I have always been like that.
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 will have sought and found how to serve.
I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.
I love meeting people and helping them.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.
I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.
I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the top of the list somewhere is to give pleasure to others.
If he works for you, you work for him.
If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated.
If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.
In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.
It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.
Make sure somebody need you.
May he who is highest serve best.
My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.
Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.
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.
No man can help another without helping himself.
No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.
Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.
Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.
One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.