Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

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.

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

Voltaire

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

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

Leonard, Steve

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Hegel, Georg

11.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

13.

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

14.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

15.

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

Dhammapada

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Augustine, St.

18.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

19.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

22.

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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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

24.

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

25.

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

Jerome, St.

26.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

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

28.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

29.

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

30.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

32.

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

Henderson, Nelson

33.

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

34.

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?

35.

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

36.

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

Mandino, Og

37.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

39.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

42.

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

43.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

44.

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

45.

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

Adams, John

46.

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Johnson

47.

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

Cook, James R.

48.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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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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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert