Motivational Quotes

Service

Make sure somebody need you.

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Best Quotes about Service

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

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.

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

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Proverb, Jewish

The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Moore, Marcia

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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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.

11.

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

12.

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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Make sure somebody need you.

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

21.

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

Dhammapada

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

38.

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

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

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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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We came here to serve not be served.

42.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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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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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Selye, Hans

48.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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