Motivational Quotes

Service

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

- Dever, J. A.

Best Quotes about Service

1.

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

2.

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

Seneca

3.

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

Jerome, St.

4.

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

5.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

6.

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.

7.

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

8.

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]

Bible

9.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Auchincloss, Louis

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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.

12.

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Selye, Hans

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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.

16.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

17.

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

18.

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

Johnson

19.

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

20.

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

Westcott, Bishop

21.

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

22.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

Wolfe, Beran

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

29.

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

Leamer, Laurence

30.

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

Mandino, Og

31.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

32.

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

Adams, John

33.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

35.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

36.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

39.

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

Hegel, Georg

40.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

41.

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

Leonard, Steve

42.

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

43.

The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Proverb, Jewish

44.

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

46.

Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

Wieder, Marcia

47.

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

48.

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

Moore, Marcia

49.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

50.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish