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

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Westcott, Bishop

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Holtz, Lou

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.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Cook, James R.

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

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

10.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

Wieder, Marcia

12.

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

Leonard, Steve

13.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

19.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

20.

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

Ward, William A.

21.

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Benjamin Disraeli

27.

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

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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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Make sure somebody need you.

30.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

31.

We came here to serve not be served.

32.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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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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.

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

36.

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

37.

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

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The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Proverb, Jewish

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

40.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

41.

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

Jerome, St.

42.

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

Voltaire

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

Wolfe, Beran

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

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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

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

Albrecht, Karl