Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Service

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.

Ruskin, John

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mandino, Og

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I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Cook, James R.

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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 high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...

Einstein, Albert

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Albrecht, Karl

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Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

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

Seneca

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

Homer

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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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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ade, George

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

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

Bible

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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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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Clark, J. Reuben