Motivational Quotes

Service

If he works for you, you work for him.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Service

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Einstein, Albert

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Holtz, Lou

10.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

Adams, Douglas

13.

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

Voltaire

14.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

16.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

17.

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.

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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.

23.

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

Dhammapada

24.

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

25.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

26.

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

27.

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

Leonard, Steve

28.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

31.

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.

32.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

Hegel, Georg

34.

The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Proverb, Jewish

35.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

36.

What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Westcott, Bishop

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

42.

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

Rohn, Jim

43.

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

Ward, William A.

44.

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

Wolfe, Beran

45.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

46.

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.