Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moody, Paul D.

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

Leonard, Steve

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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Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Moore, Marcia

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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Churchill, Winston

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Albrecht, Karl

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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

22.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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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

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

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Voltaire

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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 the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

Antoinette, Marie

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

Augustine, St.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Edelman, Marian Wright

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

Cook, James R.

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Bible

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