Motivational Quotes

Service

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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Best Quotes about Service

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chah, Achaan

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Adams, Douglas

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

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

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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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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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 oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Dix, Dorothy

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

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I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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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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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Adams, John

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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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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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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.

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Proverb, Jewish

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

Einstein, Albert

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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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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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