Motivational Quotes

Service

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.

Best Quotes about Service

1.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

2.

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

Rohn, Jim

3.

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

4.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

5.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

6.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

7.

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

Homer

8.

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

Seneca

9.

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

Cook, James R.

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.

Voltaire

12.

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.

13.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

15.

In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

Clark, J. Reuben

16.

Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

17.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

18.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

19.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

20.

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

21.

Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.

22.

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

23.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

24.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

26.

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

Tracy, Brian

27.

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

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Jerome, St.

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

38.

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

39.

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

40.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

41.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

42.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William