Motivational Quotes

Service

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.

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

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

Henderson, Nelson

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Jerome, St.

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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.

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

Holtz, Lou

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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

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

Bible

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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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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

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

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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

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

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Fillmore, Charles

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You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Moore, Marcia

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