Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Service

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Bible

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

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

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

10.

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

Ade, George

11.

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

12.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

13.

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

Mandino, Og

14.

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

15.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

16.

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

Ward, William A.

17.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Holtz, Lou

18.

Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

22.

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

Rohn, Jim

23.

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

Confucius

24.

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

Olney, Judith

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Augustine, St.

32.

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

Wolfe, Beran

33.

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

Fillmore, Charles

34.

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

Johnson

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

43.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

44.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

48.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

49.

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

50.

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