Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Service

1.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

2.

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.

3.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

4.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

5.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

6.

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

Dhammapada

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

9.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

Henderson, Nelson

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

12.

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

13.

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

Chah, Achaan

14.

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

Proverb, Jewish

15.

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

Wieder, Marcia

16.

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

Leamer, Laurence

17.

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

Hegel, Georg

18.

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

19.

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

Adams, John

20.

Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that somebody you?

21.

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

Seneca

22.

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

Ade, George

23.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Churchill, Winston

24.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

25.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Homer

29.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

31.

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

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

Tracy, Brian

33.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

34.

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

Augustine, St.

35.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

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

40.

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Fillmore, Charles

41.

It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.

42.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

We came here to serve not be served.

44.

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.

45.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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.

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

48.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

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

50.

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