Motivational Quotes

Service

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Service

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

Leonard, Steve

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Selye, Hans

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

Dhammapada

11.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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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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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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.

17.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. [Mark 10:44]

Bible

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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

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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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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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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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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the top of the list somewhere is to give pleasure to others.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

34.

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

35.

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

38.

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

39.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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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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

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

43.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

44.

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Nightingale, Earl

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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.