Motivational Quotes

Service

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

- Chah, Achaan

Best Quotes about Service

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

We came here to serve not be served.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]

Bible

Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Leonard, Steve

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated.

Warren, Frank F.

10.

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

Adams, John

11.

There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

12.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

13.

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

Cook, James R.

14.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Moody, Paul D.

16.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

17.

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

18.

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

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Proverb, Jewish

21.

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Gropius, Walter

22.

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

Dix, Dorothy

23.

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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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.

25.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

Ade, George

26.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

27.

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

28.

Make sure somebody need you.

29.

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

30.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

33.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

34.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

35.

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

Bhagavad Gita

37.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

40.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

42.

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

43.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

44.

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

Dhammapada

46.

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Homer

47.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

49.

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.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

Diana, Princess of Wales