Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

Ade, George

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

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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]

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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

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Seneca

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

Henderson, Nelson

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We came here to serve not be served.

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Moody, Paul D.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Fillmore, Charles

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Voltaire

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

Ford, Henry

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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Hegel, Georg

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Boetcker, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Adams, Douglas