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

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

Johnson

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Ade, George

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

21.

Make sure somebody need you.

22.

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.

23.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

24.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

26.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

30.

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

32.

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

Leonard, Steve

33.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

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

Wieder, Marcia

35.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

41.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

42.

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

43.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

44.

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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

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

Olney, Judith

48.

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

Jerome, St.

49.

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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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