Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Auchincloss, Louis

Best Quotes about Service

1.

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

2.

The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

3.

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

Jerome, St.

4.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Westcott, Bishop

8.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Ade, George

12.

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.

13.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Chah, Achaan

17.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

22.

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

Hegel, Georg

23.

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

Homer

24.

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

Selye, Hans

25.

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

26.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Make sure somebody need you.

30.

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

31.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

32.

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

33.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

36.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

37.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Tracy, Brian

44.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

45.

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.