Service Quotes and Proverbs

Jim Elliot
He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Norman Cousins
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Gandhi
The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose.

Anthony Robbins
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment..

John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Sally Koch
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Jeff Warner
We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.

Bertha Von Suttner
After the verb "To Love"..."To Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Sally Koch
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Vincent Van Gogh
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Leo Tolstoy
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Elizabeth Berg
There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

Albert Schweitzer
One does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Loretta Girzartis
If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915) US author
All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.

Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Up to his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Damien Hess
Service...
Giving what you don't have to give.
Giving when you don't need to give.
Giving because you want to give.

Edward Young
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;
And pyramids are pyramids in vales.
Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.

Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

David Star Jordan
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.