Motivational Quotes

Service

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Service

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.

Pike, Albert

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Ford, Henry

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

Adams, John

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

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

Dhammapada

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

10.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

11.

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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You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

Cook, James R.

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

18.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Homer

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Ade, George

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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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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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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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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.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Seneca

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

Holtz, Lou

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No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

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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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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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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

Jerome, St.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Chah, Achaan

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We came here to serve not be served.

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

Ward, William A.