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

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.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Jerome, St.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

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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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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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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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Buck, Pearl S.

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

14.

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Olney, Judith

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

Dhammapada

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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

25.

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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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

28.

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

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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.

30.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Ade, George

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Leamer, Laurence

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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

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

Confucius

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

Homer

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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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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

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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.