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

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu

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

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
John Adams

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

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

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

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

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
Charles de Gaulle

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
Earl Nightingale

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
Wilson Mizner

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.
Marcus Aurelius

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.
Henny Youngman

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

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Charles Darwin

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
Robert Collier

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
Og Mandino

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

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