Motivational Quotes

Service

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Service

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

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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.

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

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ford, Henry

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

21.

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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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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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

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

Seneca

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ade, George

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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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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bible

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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

35.

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

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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.

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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

41.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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