Motivational Quotes

Service

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Service

We came here to serve not be served.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Dhammapada

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.

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

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that somebody you?

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

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

10.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

11.

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

12.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

14.

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

Leamer, Laurence

15.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

17.

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

Henderson, Nelson

18.

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

Mandino, Og

19.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

20.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

22.

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

23.

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

Cook, James R.

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

26.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

27.

Make sure somebody need you.

28.

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

29.

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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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

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

33.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

34.

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Fillmore, Charles

35.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

36.

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

Einstein, Albert

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Moore, Marcia

39.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Hansen, Mark Victor

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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.

Warren, Frank F.

44.

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

Albrecht, Karl

45.

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

Jerome, St.

46.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

48.

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

Ward, William A.

49.

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

50.

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