Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Confucius

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Rohn, Jim

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

10.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

11.

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

12.

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

Cook, James R.

13.

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

Homer

14.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Ford, Henry

15.

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

16.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

17.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

18.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

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

20.

He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.

Aue, Hartmann Von

21.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

22.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Jerome, St.

28.

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

29.

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

Leonard, Steve

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Chah, Achaan

34.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

35.

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

Voltaire

36.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

37.

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.

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

We came here to serve not be served.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

44.

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

Ward, William A.

45.

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

Seneca

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, Jewish

49.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl