Motivational Quotes

Service

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Service

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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.

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.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Bible

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

Leonard, Steve

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

19.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Moody, Paul D.

21.

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Hansen, Mark Victor

22.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Chah, Achaan

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

30.

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

Moore, Marcia

31.

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.

32.

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

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.

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

Adams, John

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.

Carver, George Washington

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Holtz, Lou

40.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Albrecht, Karl

42.

I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

44.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

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

Antoinette, Marie

46.

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

Homer

47.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

48.

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

Jerome, St.

49.

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

50.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita