Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Ligario, Cicero Pro

Best Quotes about Service

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

Olney, Judith

If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated.

Warren, Frank F.

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

Dhammapada

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Holtz, Lou

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

10.

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

11.

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

Ward, William A.

12.

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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Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

18.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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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

20.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

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

23.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Ade, George

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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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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

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

31.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

We came here to serve not be served.

33.

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

37.

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

Chah, Achaan

38.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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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

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

Doherty, Henry L.