Motivational Quotes

Service

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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Best Quotes about Service

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

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

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?

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Seneca

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If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated.

Warren, Frank F.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Churchill, Winston

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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

20.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

21.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

22.

Make sure somebody need you.

23.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Adams, John

25.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

Chah, Achaan

27.

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

Ade, George

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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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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 most in life is what we do for others.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Adams, Douglas

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

36.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cook, James R.

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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

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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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 he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese