Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Adams, Douglas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Homer

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

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

Johnson

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

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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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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Make sure somebody need you.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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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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

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Einstein, Albert

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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.

Voltaire

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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

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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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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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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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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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 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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

43.

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

Dhammapada

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

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The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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

Henderson, Nelson

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales