Motivational Quotes

Service

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

- Antoinette, Marie

Best Quotes about Service

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Hegel, Georg

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

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

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

Bible

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

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

Ade, George

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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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

11.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

12.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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

Leonard, Steve

20.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

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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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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Seneca

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.

Ramdas, Swami

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

Cook, James R.

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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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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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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Leamer, Laurence

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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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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

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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