Motivational Quotes

Service

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

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Best Quotes about Service

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

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

Chah, Achaan

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We came here to serve not be served.

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

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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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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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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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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Johnson

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

Ade, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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

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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?

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Leonard, Steve

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

Ward, William A.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.