Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Seneca

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Ade, George

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

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

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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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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

Homer

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

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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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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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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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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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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We came here to serve not be served.

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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

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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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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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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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Make sure somebody need you.

30.

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Wolfe, Beran

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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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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?

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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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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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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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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.

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

Henderson, Nelson