Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Seneca

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

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

Henderson, Nelson

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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Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Homer

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

Ade, George

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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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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I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

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

Selye, Hans

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

Jerome, St.

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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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