If you are searching the internet for the best quotes about service, you came to the right place! 🤝
Below is a compilation of sayings about help, aid, assistance, and quotes about service that will remind you of your duty and responsibility to your family, to society, and to your country.
Side note: If I missed any quotes about service, feel free to mention them below so I can add it in the next update! 😃
83+ Quotes About Service
1. “Life is for service.” – Fred Rogers
2. “We love those whom we serve.” – Richard Paul Evans
3. “He profits most who serves best.” – Arthur F. Sheldon
4. “Leadership is service, not position.” – Tim Fargo
5. “Love in action is service to the world.” – Lynne Namka
6. “Don’t mistake activity with achievement.” – John Wooden
7. “Use your God-given gifts to serve others.” – Anonymous
8. “If you want good service, serve yourself.” – Proverbs
9. “There is nothing small in the service of God.” – Saint Francis De Sales
10. “Replace selfish striving with selfless service.” – ATGW
11. “There’s real freedom that comes through service.” – Anonymous
12. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” – Carl Gustav Jung
13. “Love means to serve and to serve means to please.” – Radhanath Swami
14. “Give your hands to serve, and your hearts to love.” – Mother Teresa
15. “All of your customers are partners in your mission.” – Shep Hyken
16. “There is incredible value in being of service to others.” – Elizabeth Berg
17. “Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.” – Marie Osmond
18. “People of excellence go the extra mile to do what’s right.” – Joel Osteen
19. “Help the life of one person and you can help the community.” – Steven Sawalich
20. “Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” – Booker T. Washington
21. “The best kind of happiness is a habit you’re passionate about.” – Shannon L. Alder
22. “Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.” – Shannon L. Alder
23. “Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.” – Earl Nightingale
24. “You have two hands. One to help yourself, the second to help others.” – Audrey Hepburn
25. “If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.” – Buddha
26. “The little waiter’s eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.” – Douglas Adams
27. “If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.” – Mother Teresa
28. “Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.” – Cameron Dokey
29. “Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you’ve been assigned.” – Mike Murdock
30. “You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.” – Criss Jami
31. “Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. – John Adams” – David McCullough
32. “Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr
33. “Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” – Howard Zinn
34. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
35. “Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.” – Ramana Maharshi
36. “There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you don’t do them.” – Charles D. Gill
37. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” – Martin Luther King
38. “The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.” – Sir Robert Baden-Powell
39. “When you are in the service of your fellow beings you are in the service of God.” – Anonymous
40. “Service doesn’t have to be big and grandiose to be meaningful and make a difference.” – Cheryl A. Esplin
41. “Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.” – Shannon L. Alder
42. “To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measures with money.” – Douglas Adams
43. “As we lose ourselves in the service of others we discover our own lives and our own happiness.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
44. “I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.” – Jana Stanfield
45. “Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.” – Og Mandino
46. “A life of significance is about serving those who need your gifts, your leadership, your purpose.” – Kevin Hall
47. “One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.” – Shannon L. Alder
48. “God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.” – Spencer W. Kimball
49. “Love is a selfless service to mankind like a showcase done by the twinkling stars in beautiful nightly sky.” – Santosh Kalwar
50. “Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.” – Nina Hagen
51. “Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.” – Shannon L. Alder
52. “Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” – Desmond Tutu
53. “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
54. “Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.” – Marian Wright Edelman
55. “I’m starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
56. “Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve.” – Wm. Paul Young
57. “The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.” – Bryant McGill
58. “The Simple Path / Silence is Prayer / Prayer is Faith / Faith is Love / Love is Service / The Fruit of Service is Peace” – Mother Teresa
59. “Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.” – Shannon L. Alder
60. “Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.” – Shannon L. Alder
61. “Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, ‘How many positions did you hold,’ but rather, ‘How many people did you help?” – Thomas S. Monson
62. “When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.” – Steve Maraboli
63. “If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.” – Ezra Taft Benson
64. “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.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
65. “True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up” – Sheri L. Dew
66. “Don’t feel bad if people remember you only when they need you. Feel privileged that you are like a candle that comes to their mind when there is darkness.” – Anonymous
67. “So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
68. “I don’t want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined by what is etched in the lives and hearts of those I’ve touched.” – Steve Maraboli
69. “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 have sought and found how to serve.” – Albert Schweitzer
70. “When we replace a sense of service and gratitude with a sense of entitlement and expectation, we quickly see the demise of our relationships, society, and economy.” – Steve Maraboli
71. “A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.” – Criss Jami
72. “Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.” – St. Therese of Lisieux
73. “And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.” – The Bible Colossians 3:23-24
74. “It takes a female to have a baby, / It takes a woman to raise a child, / It takes a mother to raise them correctly, / It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.” – Shannon L. Alder
75. “Without service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It’s important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It’s the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.” – Dr. Dorothy Height
76. “If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give – the ability to influence.” – Shannon L. Alder
77. “Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.” – Vanna Bonta
78. “Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.” – Mother Teresa
79. “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
80. “The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.” – George S. Patton Jr.