Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Olney, Judith

Best Quotes about Service

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

Ade, George

We came here to serve not be served.

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

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

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

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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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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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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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Homer

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

Einstein, Albert

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

Cook, James R.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Auchincloss, Louis

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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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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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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 difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Leamer, Laurence

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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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

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

Antoinette, Marie