Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Service

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

Ade, George

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

Augustine, St.

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.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

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

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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

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Voltaire

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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Gropius, Walter

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Jerome, St.

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

Moore, Marcia

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Johnson

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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Be alert to give service -- what counts most in life is what we do for others.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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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Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Seneca

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

Chah, Achaan

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.