Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Cook, James R.

Best Quotes about Service

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Leonard, Steve

11.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

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

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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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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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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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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.

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

25.

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 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.

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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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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?

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The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

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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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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.

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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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Make sure somebody need you.

34.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

35.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ade, George

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

Moore, Marcia

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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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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

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Cook, James R.

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.