Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

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

Mandino, Og

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

Augustine, St.

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.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Voltaire

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ade, George

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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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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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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

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

Seneca

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

Albrecht, Karl

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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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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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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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Make sure somebody need you.

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

Westcott, Bishop

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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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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Johnson

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hegel, Georg

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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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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?