Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Service

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Adams, Douglas

4.

It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.

5.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

6.

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

7.

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

Homer

8.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

9.

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.

10.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

11.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

12.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

13.

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

14.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

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

16.

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

Adams, John

17.

What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Westcott, Bishop

18.

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

Albrecht, Karl

19.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

20.

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

Moore, Marcia

21.

We came here to serve not be served.

22.

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

Ford, Henry

23.

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

24.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

25.

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

Proverb, Jewish

26.

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

Jerome, St.

27.

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

Ward, William A.

28.

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

Dhammapada

29.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Henderson, Nelson

31.

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

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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?

34.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Rohn, Jim

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

38.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Edelman, Marian Wright

39.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward