Motivational Quotes

Service

If he works for you, you work for him.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Service

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

Wolfe, Beran

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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.

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

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Hegel, Georg

Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Selye, Hans

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

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Boetcker, William

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We came here to serve not be served.

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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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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Make sure somebody need you.

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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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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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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

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

Homer

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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Moore, Marcia

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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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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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Johnson

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

Seneca

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Adams, John

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

Chah, Achaan

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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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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Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Adams, Douglas

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish