Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Chisholm, Shirley Anita

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

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

Seneca

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

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

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

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.

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

10.

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

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

Ford, Henry

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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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

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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

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

Cook, James R.

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Voltaire

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

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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

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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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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Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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Make sure somebody need you.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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

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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Wieder, Marcia

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