Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Chisholm, Shirley Anita

Best Quotes about Service

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Chah, Achaan

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

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Homer

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

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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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

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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

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Antoinette, Marie

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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

Jerome, St.

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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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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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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Cook, James R.

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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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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 love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Moody, Paul D.

33.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Albrecht, Karl

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In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Wieder, Marcia

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We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Nightingale, Earl

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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.

39.

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

Voltaire

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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

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

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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

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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God likes help when helping people.