Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Moody, Paul D.

Best Quotes about Service

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

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Adams, John

In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Voltaire

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

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

10.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

11.

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

12.

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

Wieder, Marcia

13.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

14.

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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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

16.

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

17.

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

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

19.

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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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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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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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

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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.

25.

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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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.

27.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

28.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

29.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

Holtz, Lou

31.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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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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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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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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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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

37.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

38.

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

Leonard, Steve

39.

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

40.

Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

41.

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

Ford, Henry

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

45.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

46.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Ade, George

49.

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

Dhammapada

50.

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

Hegel, Georg