Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna. By the mercy of both Krishna and the spiritual masters, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

Being a good example is the best form of service.

One must execute devotional service under the guidance of a devotee or directly under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not possible, however, to train oneself without guidance from the spiritual master.

When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.

We shouldn’t be ambitious for positions; rather, we should be ambitious for service.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

The joy of bhakti is experienced to the degree we are selfless in our service.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

Absorb ourselves in the supreme of all prayers, the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra, fix our mind begging for service and begging for the power to please the Lord by our service, because in essence the success of our service is how we please Krishna.

Money is life energy that we exchange and use as a result of the service we provide to the universe.

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.

Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

Many times a day the mountains change their colors, because the sun is at the service of these mountains.

As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.

Service is God. Why has God endowed man with a body, a mind and an intellect? Feel with the mind, plan with the intelligence and use the body to serve those who are in need of service. Offer that act of service to God; worship home with that Flower.

The highest form of service is to help a person who is incapable of thanking in return.

Every action in Krishna’s service is considered inaction and is not bound to karma.

The highest guiding principle in marriage should be the principle of selfless service to one's partner.

First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.