Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Adams, Douglas

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

Mandino, Og

The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Olney, Judith

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

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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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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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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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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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Henderson, Nelson

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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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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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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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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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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Hegel, Georg

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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Holtz, Lou

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

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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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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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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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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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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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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated.

Warren, Frank F.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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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 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 more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Boetcker, William

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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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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