Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Service

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

Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Adams, Douglas

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Leamer, Laurence

The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Johnson

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Antoinette, Marie

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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Leonard, Steve

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Be alert to give service -- what counts most in life is what we do for others.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

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Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.

Ward, William A.

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

Cook, James R.

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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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We came here to serve not be served.

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Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

Einstein, Albert

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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

Hegel, Georg

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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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Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Henderson, Nelson

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

Olney, Judith

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Albrecht, Karl

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Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that somebody you?

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca

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

Augustine, St.

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My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

Woods, Tiger

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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Tracy, Brian