Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Service

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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]

Bible

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

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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

Selye, Hans

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.

Ruskin, John

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Henderson, Nelson

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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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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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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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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Voltaire

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Chah, Achaan

48.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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