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

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

Ford, Henry

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Make sure somebody need you.

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Fillmore, Charles

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

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

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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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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

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Ward, William A.

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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

18.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

19.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Homer

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ade, George

28.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

29.

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

30.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

33.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

Seneca

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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

42.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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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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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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My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

Woods, Tiger

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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Hegel, Georg

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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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