Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Olney, Judith

Best Quotes about Service

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Henderson, Nelson

We came here to serve not be served.

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.

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

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

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

Leamer, Laurence

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

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

Seneca

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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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Edelman, Marian Wright

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

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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

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

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Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

24.

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

Mandino, Og

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

Einstein, Albert

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The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

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

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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Cook, James R.

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

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

Ford, Henry

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Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that somebody you?

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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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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

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

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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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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.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.