Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Service

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Seneca

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.

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Bible

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

10.

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

Leamer, Laurence

11.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

13.

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

Jerome, St.

14.

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

Ward, William A.

15.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

16.

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

Johnson

17.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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.

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

Rohn, Jim

20.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

Make sure somebody need you.

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Ford, Henry

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Jewish

27.

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

Antoinette, Marie

28.

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

Westcott, Bishop

29.

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

Selye, Hans

30.

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

Olney, Judith

31.

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

Adams, John

32.

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.

33.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Ade, George

38.

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

Henderson, Nelson

39.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

40.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

41.

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

Moore, Marcia

42.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Adams, Douglas

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Einstein, Albert

49.

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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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