Heartfelt Helpers: Quotes on Service and Giving

Welcome to Quotes On Service, where inspiration meets action! Discover a treasure trove of motivational quotes, anecdotes, and wisdom to ignite your passion for service. Whether you’re leading a team, volunteering, or simply seeking to make a difference, our curated collection will empower and uplift you. Let these words of service guide your journey towards positive impact.

Quotes About Service And Leadership

What you do has far greater impact than what you say. – Steven Covey

Service is what life is all about. – Marian Wright Edelman

Great acts are made up of small deeds. – Lao Tzu

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. – Henry David Thoreau

As we serve others we are working on ourselves; every act, every word, every gesture of genuine compassion naturally nourishes our own hearts as well. It is not a question of who is healed first. When we attend to ourselves with compassion and mercy, more healing is made available for others. And when we serve others with an open and generous heart, great healing comes to us. – Wayne Muller

Service is what prayer looks like when it gets up off its knees and walks around in the world. – Michael J. Graham, S.J.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. – Rosa Parks

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit. – Mary Lou Retton

A life isn’t significant except for its impact on others lives. – Jackie Robinson

Know yourself. Never forget where you came from, and reach back to help someone else come forward too. – Alpha Alexander

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. – James Keller

Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all who need us desperately. – Elie Wiesel

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. – Pierre Corneille

You know that your toil is not in vain when it is done in the Lord. – 1 Corinthians 15:58

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. – Mitch Albom

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pine

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. – Mother Teresa of Calcutta

People say, ‘What is the sense of our small effort?’ They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much work to do. – Dorothy Day

We work to become, not to acquire. – Elbert Hubbard

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

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

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. – Audre Lorde

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

Charity, a word that comprises love and justice, may well be the most sublime of all Christian virtues. – Diana Butler Bass

Work is love made visible. – Kahlil Gibran

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. – Jack London

As we lose ourselves in the service of others we discover our own lives and our own happiness.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

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

All of your customers are partners in your mission.

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

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.

Service doesn’t have to be big and grandiose to be meaningful and make a difference.

Leadership is service, not position.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

There is nothing small in the service of God.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

There is incredible value in being of service to others.

Inspirational Service Quotes

If you want good service, serve yourself.

You have two hands. One to help yourself, the second to help others.

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.

Help the life of one person and you can help the community.

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measures with money.

When you are in the service of your fellow beings you are in the service of God.

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you don’t do them.

Love in action is service to the world.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.

There’s real freedom that comes through service.

Love means to serve and to serve means to please.

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

Replace selfish striving with selfless service.

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people.

A life of significance is about serving those who need your gifts, your leadership, your purpose.

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.

Use your God-given gifts to serve others.

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

He profits most who serves best.

Give your hands to serve, and your hearts to love.

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. – Tom Brokaw

If you get, give. If you learn, teach. – Maya Angelou

The more we give away, the more is given to us. – Dr Wayne W Dyer

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

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being. – Lee Iacocca

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

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership. – James Cash Penney

Quotes On Service To Society

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don’t just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves. – Bill Clinton

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

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. – Booker T. Washington

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. – Leo Tolstoy

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. – Woodrow Wilson

When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own. – Author Unknown

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

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

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

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

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. – Napoleon Hill

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don’t have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn’t matter as much as how you do what you do. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who have need of a man’s help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For, remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. – Albert Schweitzer

Don’t ever forget that you’re a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character. – Aaron Sorkin

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

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can. – Sydney Smith

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. – Edmund Burke

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. – Mother Teresa

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. – Betty Reese

I wondered why somebody didn’t do something. Then I realized, I am somebody. – Author Unknown

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. – Edward Everett Hale

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

Everybody can be great because, everybody can serve. – Martin Luther King Jr

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you many never even dream of. there is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. – Fred Rogers

How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank

Service is what life is all about. – Marian Wright Edelman

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

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

As we lose ourselves in the service of others we discover our own lives and our own happiness. – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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 person is useless while he has a friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service. – Earl Nightingale

Public Service Quotes

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money. – Douglas Adams

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves. – Nina Hagen

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. – Tom Brokaw

I think there’s no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people’s lives and improve the world. – Jack Lew

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

The highest of distinctions is service to others. – King George VI

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards. – Elbert Hubbard

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

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. – Carl Gustav Jung

Life is for service. – Fred Rogers

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.

What you do has far greater impact than what you say. – Stephen Covey

Great acts are made up of small deeds. – Lao Tzu

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

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.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don’t have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn’t matter as much as how you do what you do.

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

As we serve others we are working on ourselves; every act, every word, every gesture of genuine compassion naturally nourishes our own hearts as well. It is not a question of who is healed first. When we attend to ourselves with compassion and mercy, more healing is made available for others. And when we serve others with an open and generous heart, great healing comes to us.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. – Henry David Thoreau

Some of our finest work comes through service to others. – Gordon Hinckley

Give your hands to serve, and your hearts to love. – Mother Teresa

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

There is incredible value in being of service to others. – Elizabeth Berg

The Church is not an automobile showroom – a place to put ourselves on display so that others can admire our spirituality, capacity, or prosperity. It is more like a service center, where vehicles in need of repair come for maintenance and rehabilitation.

Service is what prayer looks like when it gets up off its knees and walks around in the world. – Michael J. Graham, S.J.

There is nothing small in the service of God. – St. Francis De Sales

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

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Quotes On Service To Humanity

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. – Rosa Parks

A life isn’t significant except for its impact on others lives. – Jackie Robinson

Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.

The more we give away, the more is given to us. – Wayne W. Dyer

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer

Help the life of one person and you can help the community. – Steven Sawalich

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.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. – Elmer Davis

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation. – Gen. Douglas MacArthur

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world. – Jim Walsh

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation. – Margaret Chase Smith

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic. – Indira Gandhi

Leadership is service, not position. – Tim Fargo

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure. – Mitt Romney

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness. – Marie Osmond

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! – Maya Angelou

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. – Joseph Campbell

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit. – Mary Lou Retton

Know yourself. Never forget where you came from, and reach back to help someone else come forward too. – Alpha Alexander

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you don’t do them. – Charles Gill

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. – Howard Zinn

Service doesn’t have to be big and grandiose to be meaningful and make a difference. – Cheryl Esplin

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. – William Lyon Phelps

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. – Audre Lorde

Love in action is service to the world. – Lynne Namka

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. – Cynthia Ozick

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

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. – Winston Churchill

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. ― Carl Gustav Jung

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

Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ― Martin Luther King Jr.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice. – Tim Pawlenty

Those who serve in our Armed Forces do so from a profound sense of duty to secure liberty for their fellow Americans. They enlist to serve their fellow citizens who express their will through elected representatives, not an unaccountable defense establishment. – Joe Lonsdale

Customer Service Quotes

Life is for service. – Fred Rogers

To earn the respect (and eventually love) of your customers, you first have to respect those customers. That is why Golden Rule behavior is embraced by most of the winning companies. – Colleen Barrett, Southwest Airlines President Emerita

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein

To keep a customer demands as much skill as to win one. – American Proverb

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. – Anne Morrow Lindeberg, Author and Aviator

There is a spiritual aspect to our lives — when we give, we receive — when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them! – Ben Cohen, Co-Founder Ben & Jerry’s

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’ – Brian Tracy, Author and Motivational Speaker

When you help others feel important, you help yourself feel important too. – David J. Schwartz, Author and Motivational Speaker

Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. – Denis Waitley, Author and Motivational Speaker

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. – Don Alden Adams, President Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards. – Elbert Hubbard, Artist and Writer

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway, Author and Journalist

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Essayist

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? – George Eliot, Novelist

Sometimes one can become lost in a big company and lose sight of how what one does truly helps or impacts the end customer. If you are one of those, think of a fire brigade, a line of people passing buckets of water from one to the other from a source of water to the site of the fire. An individual in the brigade may not be able to see the end result, i.e., the water being thrown on the fire to put it out, but the contribution of the individual is indispensable to the final outcome. – Grant Bright, Former Project Lead IBM

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. – Gretta Palmer, Author and Editor

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. – Helen Keller, Author and Political Activist

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. – Henry Ford, Founder Ford Motor Company

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything. – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Author

Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement. – James Cash Penney, Founder J.C. Penney Stores

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job to make the customer experience a little bit better. – Jeff Bezos, Founder Amazon

Biggest question: Isn’t it really ‘customer helping’ rather than customer service? And wouldn’t you deliver better service if you thought of it that way? – Jeffrey Gitomer, Author and Professional Speaker

You don’t earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day. – Jeffrey Gitomer, Author and Professional Speaker

If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune. – Jim Rohn, Author and Motivational Speaker

If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles. – Jim Rohn, Author and Motivational Speaker

The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first. – Kerry Stokes, Chairman of the Seven Network

Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big. – Lao Tzu, Philosopher

Our greatest asset is the customer! Treat each customer as if they are the only one! – Laurice Leitao, Customer Service Professional SeraCare Life Sciences

Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers. – Les Brown, Author and Motivational Speaker

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others. – Lewis Carroll, Writer and Mathematician

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man. – Lous Nizer, Lawyer

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so. – Mahatma Gandhi

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, Founder Children’s Defense Fund