Quotes about Service

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

This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.

They're really good people. Quakers are always to be found where they're most needed.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.

God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

Servant of God, well done! Well hast thou fought The better fight.

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.

To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.