Motivational Quotes

Service

What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

- Westcott, Bishop

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Jerome, St.

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

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

12.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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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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Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

Albrecht, Karl

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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.

19.

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

20.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the top of the list somewhere is to give pleasure to others.

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

Cook, James R.

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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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I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Ade, George

27.

We came here to serve not be served.

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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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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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

35.

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

36.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

37.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Adams, John

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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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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

44.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.

Ligario, Cicero Pro

45.

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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Make sure somebody need you.

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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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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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