Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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?

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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.

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Moody, Paul D.

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He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Ford, Henry

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

Selye, Hans

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Albrecht, Karl

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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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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

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Doherty, Henry L.

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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