Motivational Quotes

Service

If he works for you, you work for him.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Service

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Ward, William A.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

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

Johnson

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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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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Seneca

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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Adams, John

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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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Make sure somebody need you.

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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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When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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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

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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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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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Cook, James R.

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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

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

Ade, George

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

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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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