Motivational Quotes

Service

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

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

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

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

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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

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

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Olney, Judith

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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Homer

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It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.

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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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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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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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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]

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cook, James R.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ade, George

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We came here to serve not be served.

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

Jerome, St.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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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

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Antoinette, Marie

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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Gropius, Walter

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

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Benjamin Disraeli