Motivational Quotes

Service

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

- Dever, J. A.

Best Quotes about Service

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

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

Rohn, Jim

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

Antoinette, Marie

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...

Einstein, Albert

We came here to serve not be served.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

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Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Johnson

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Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

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Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Auchincloss, Louis

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Make sure somebody need you.

15.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Fillmore, Charles

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Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.

Ruskin, John

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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Benjamin Disraeli

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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.

Voltaire

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Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Hegel, Georg

23.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

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The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.

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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Buck, Pearl S.

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Churchill, Winston

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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Adams, John

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He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.

Pike, Albert

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

Albrecht, Karl

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Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Adams, Douglas

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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.

Carver, George Washington

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I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

40.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Holtz, Lou

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Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.

Ortenberg, Elisabeth Claiborne

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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Selye, Hans

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When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Seneca

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Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Eliot, Charles W.

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Moore, Marcia

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.