Motivational Quotes

Service

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

- Dever, J. A.

Best Quotes about Service

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Confucius

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

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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

Doherty, Henry L.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Westcott, Bishop

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

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Dhammapada

11.

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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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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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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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Selye, Hans

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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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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Wolfe, Beran

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Seneca

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

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

Johnson

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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.

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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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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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If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

Antoinette, Marie

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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 difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Leamer, Laurence

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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