Motivational Quotes

Service

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.

Best Quotes about Service

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Cook, James R.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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?

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

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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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Johnson

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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Eliot, Charles W.

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

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

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Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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