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

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

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Voltaire

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

There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Chah, Achaan

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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?

24.

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

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Ade, George

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

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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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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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I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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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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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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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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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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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita