Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Albrecht, Karl

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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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

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Einstein, Albert

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.

Ramdas, Swami

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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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Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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 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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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.

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

Selye, Hans

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Tracy, Brian

29.

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

Homer

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

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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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