Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Service

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ward, William A.

Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Leonard, Steve

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

Ford, Henry

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca

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

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

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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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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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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

15.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Confucius

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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.

18.

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

Moody, Paul D.

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

22.

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

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

24.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

25.

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

Jerome, St.

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Leamer, Laurence

29.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

30.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

35.

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

Cook, James R.

36.

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

Albrecht, Karl

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

38.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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

40.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Tracy, Brian

41.

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

42.

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

Westcott, Bishop

44.

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

45.

We came here to serve not be served.

46.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

47.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Homer