Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Ford, Henry

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Cook, James R.

Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

Jerome, St.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Leamer, Laurence

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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

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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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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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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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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

33.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Henderson, Nelson

37.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert