Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

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

Chah, Achaan

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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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Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Doherty, Henry L.

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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We came here to serve not be served.

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

Cook, James R.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Ford, Henry

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Make sure somebody need you.

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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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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In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

Clark, J. Reuben

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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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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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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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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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Moore, Marcia

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

Bible

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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

Albrecht, Karl

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If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

Antoinette, Marie

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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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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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