Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Service

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Henderson, Nelson

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

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

Voltaire

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

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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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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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, 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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Ade, George

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Make sure somebody need you.

22.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Homer

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Selye, Hans

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dhammapada

41.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Johnson

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

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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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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo