Motivational Quotes

Service

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

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

Moody, Paul D.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

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.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Antoinette, Marie

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Adams, Douglas

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

Adams, John

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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

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

Moore, Marcia

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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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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 everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

Chah, Achaan

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

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

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ford, Henry

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Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Johnson

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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

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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

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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