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

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

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

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?

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

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Voltaire

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Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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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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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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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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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Homer

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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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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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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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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We came here to serve not be served.

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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Rohn, Jim

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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