Motivational Quotes

Service

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

- Bhagavad Gita

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Voltaire

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

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.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Einstein, Albert

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.

Ligario, Cicero Pro

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

Woods, Tiger

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Selye, Hans

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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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

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

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Augustine, St.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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

Homer

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Rohn, Jim

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Moore, Marcia

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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Cook, James R.

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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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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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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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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 true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Henderson, Nelson

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

Aue, Hartmann Von