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

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.

Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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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

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

Leamer, Laurence

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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Homer

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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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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.

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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.

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

Leonard, Steve

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

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

Chah, Achaan

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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

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My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

Woods, Tiger

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Adams, John

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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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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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 oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Selye, Hans

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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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Make sure somebody need you.