Motivational Quotes

Service

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Service

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

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Dhammapada

We came here to serve not be served.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Auchincloss, Louis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

11.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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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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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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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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

16.

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

Cook, James R.

17.

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

Hegel, Georg

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

24.

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

Jerome, St.

25.

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

Wieder, Marcia

26.

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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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

29.

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

30.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

31.

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

32.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

34.

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

Voltaire

35.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

36.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

37.

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

Mandino, Og

38.

We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

40.

Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Leonard, Steve

41.

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

Seneca

42.

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

Adams, John

43.

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

Wolfe, Beran

44.

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

45.

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

Henderson, Nelson

46.

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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.