Motivational Quotes

Service

Find a need and fill it.

- Peale, Ruth Stafford

Best Quotes about Service

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

Adams, John

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

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

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

Cook, James R.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Seneca

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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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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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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.

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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 public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Einstein, Albert

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Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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 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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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We came here to serve not be served.

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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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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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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Mandino, Og

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

Hubbard, Elbert