Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Service

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Adams, Douglas

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

Johnson

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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.

10.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

11.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

12.

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

13.

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

Olney, Judith

14.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

16.

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

Proverb, Jewish

17.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

18.

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

19.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

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?

21.

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

22.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Chah, Achaan

24.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

25.

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

Wolfe, Beran

26.

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

Dhammapada

27.

We came here to serve not be served.

28.

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

Mandino, Og

29.

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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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

31.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

32.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

39.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

40.

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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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

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

Antoinette, Marie

43.

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

Adams, John

44.

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

Confucius

45.

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

Hegel, Georg

46.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Homer

49.

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

Albrecht, Karl

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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.