The meeting of a customer and a clerk across the service counter in a store is as significant as two leaders of nations meeting over a conference table in search of peace. If peace and understanding is possible, it must occur in the moment that is present. It can occur only when relationship is real and unconditional. Relationship begins with thoughtless awareness, an openness that sees and hears with humility, and a consideration that has already forgiven all things that the mind might present as a barrier to unity. —Booker Jones More about this quote Tags: awareness forgiveness peace relationship humility business service significance consideration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reconsider your definitions. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: humanity success money mankind cars charity service definitions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Excuse me, sir; I cannot consent to receive pay for services I do not render. —Robert E. Lee, explaining his rejection of a ten-thousand-dollar-a-year salary to act as titular head of an insurance company after the Civil War More about this quote Tags: morality money work service Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have bought it or baked it or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even. —Daniel Berrigan More about this quote Tags: hope suffering loss service Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: education greatness physics service college Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. —Arthur Ashe More about this quote Tags: others heroism service drama Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: service Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death? —Confucius More about this quote Tags: service Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them. —Madame de Stael More about this quote Tags: service Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. —Seneca More about this quote Tags: service Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email