Browsing Topic Best Serving Quotes

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

Loving people and serving them is the greatest value in life.

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 will have sought and found how to serve.

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.

Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.

Assume the worst. About everybody. But don’t let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn’t prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want – it’s no sin. But politics is for serving the people.

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere – although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men’s necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally serving others. Like a true benefactress, the secret of her service is unchangeableness. Thus is the busiest merchant, though within sight of his Lowell, put to pilgrim’s shifts, and soon comes to staff and scrip and scallop-shell.

The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

Separation of the Church and State is like a railroad track. It cannot be close to one another, neither can it be distant, because there will be derailment. We (Church) should cooperate with the government and the government should cooperate with us because we’re serving the same people.

I have felt a calling to dedicate my life in a more direct and personal way to serving the marginalized, empowering the vulnerable and healing those who suffer from spiritual wounds.

Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others.

If God gave you a strong personality it’s for serving others not controlling them.

Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.

The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.

I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long as elections have integrity, as long as we respect freedom of speech, freedom of religion, as long as there are checks and balances in our governments so that the people have the ability to not just make judgments about how well government is serving them but also change governments if they’re not serving them well, then I have confidence that over the long term, progress will continue.

When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, […] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else’s.

Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.

I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.

Journalism’s ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

I’m just one example of thousands of transgender veterans and people who are actively serving today.

The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.

So my doctor told me to watch what I’m eating – to read food labels. I’m in the store reading the Fig Newtons label: I’ve always liked Fig Newtons. I’m reading the label to make sure everything’s fine: fat content. I looked at the serving size; two cookies. Who eats two cookies? I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve: two sleeves is a serving size. I open them both and eat them like a tree chipper; Fig Newton shavings coming off the side.

What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.

The priest is Christ’s slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

… knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?

I think the serving size of ice cream is when you hear the spoon hit the bottom of the container.

On this Thanksgiving, as we spend time with our family and friends, let’s all reflect on what we’re thankful for in our own lives. And let’s remember those who cannot be with their loved ones because they’re serving overseas. But let’s also do our part to help those who have no place to go for a meal. I encourage all Americans to do what they can to help those in need-because the best way to show our gratitude for what we have is by doing our part for those who have less.

We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.