Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Dhammapada

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

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

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

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Seneca

We came here to serve not be served.

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Curie, Madame Marie

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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.

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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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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.

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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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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Moore, Marcia

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.