Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Service

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

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

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

Cook, James R.

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

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

10.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

11.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

15.

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

Holtz, Lou

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And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. [Mark 10:44]

Bible

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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

18.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Chah, Achaan

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Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

Wieder, Marcia

24.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Doherty, Henry L.

26.

Make sure somebody need you.

27.

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Leamer, Laurence

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

Moore, Marcia

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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.

40.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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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?

47.

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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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

Jerome, St.

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

Selye, Hans

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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