Motivational Quotes

Service

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Service

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Adams, Douglas

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Churchill, Winston

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Homer

11.

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

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

13.

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 public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

Leonard, Steve

17.

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

Mandino, Og

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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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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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The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Moore, Marcia

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Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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

Jerome, St.

33.

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

34.

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

Dhammapada

35.

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

Ade, George

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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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.

40.

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

41.

And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. [Mark 10:44]

Bible

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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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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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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Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.

Ward, William A.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

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

Selye, Hans