Service Quotes

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein

Road, Ideal, Lip

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

Best, Yourself, Find

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Joy, Dreamt

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali

Others, Here, Earth

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand

Government, Business, Help

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

Nature, Woman, Her

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.
John F. Kennedy

Today, Tomorrow, Living

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Someone, Works

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Woman, Sacrifice, Living

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen

Love, Heart, Giving

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Ayn Rand

Someone, Sacrifice, Reason

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mahatma Gandhi

Noblest, Sake, Rendered

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Before, Joy, Spirit

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before, Silent, Church

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams

God, Power, Thinks

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn

Great, Joy, Greatness

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Courage, Yourself, Friend

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs

Love, Work, Patience

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Henry David Thoreau

Often, Books, Ourselves

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.
Robert Frost

Means, Shape, Pressed

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw

Family, Greatest, Country

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Art, Wish

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Douglas Adams

Money, Integrity, Real

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry Ford

Business, Worry, Large

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington

Nothing, Another, Discipline

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve Jobs

Design, Together, Soul

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford

Happiness, After, Wealth

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
Plato

Gods, Tolerable

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
Peter Drucker

Him, Understand, Marketing

Room service? Send up a larger room.
Groucho Marx

Room, Larger, Send

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