Motivational Quotes

Service

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

- Dever, J. A.

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Olney, Judith

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Dhammapada

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

We came here to serve not be served.

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

Leonard, Steve

10.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

12.

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

Confucius

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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

15.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

29.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

31.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

37.

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

38.

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

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

Homer

40.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

41.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

42.

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

46.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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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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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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

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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.