Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Voltaire

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

Ward, William A.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Leamer, Laurence

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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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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

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

Selye, Hans

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

Adams, John

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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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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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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]

Bible

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

Mandino, Og

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Jerome, St.

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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

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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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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