Motivational Quotes

Service

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

- Wolfe, Beran

Best Quotes about Service

1.

Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Leonard, Steve

2.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

3.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

4.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

8.

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

Moore, Marcia

9.

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

Homer

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.

Ward, William A.

17.

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

Adams, John

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

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.

21.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

22.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

23.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

24.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

25.

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

26.

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

Hegel, Georg

27.

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

28.

We came here to serve not be served.

29.

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

30.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

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

Johnson

32.

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

33.

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

Henderson, Nelson

34.

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?

35.

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

36.

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

Augustine, St.

37.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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.

39.

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

Jerome, St.

40.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

Seneca

42.

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

43.

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

Leamer, Laurence

44.

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

45.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

46.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]