Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Leamer, Laurence

Best Quotes about Service

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

We came here to serve not be served.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

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

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Henderson, Nelson

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

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

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

12.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

13.

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Doherty, Henry L.

14.

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

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

17.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

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

Adams, Douglas

19.

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

20.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

21.

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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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

23.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

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

Westcott, Bishop

25.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

26.

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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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

28.

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

Ade, George

29.

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?

30.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

31.

Make sure somebody need you.

32.

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

Proverb, Jewish

33.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Tracy, Brian

36.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

37.

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

Rohn, Jim

38.

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

Hegel, Georg

39.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

40.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

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

Johnson

42.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

43.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

44.

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

45.

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

Olney, Judith

46.

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

Wieder, Marcia

47.

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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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]