Motivational Quotes

Service

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Service

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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.

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

13.

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

Confucius

14.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

15.

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

Homer

16.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

17.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

18.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

19.

We came here to serve not be served.

20.

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

Proverb, Jewish

21.

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

22.

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

23.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

25.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

26.

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

Adams, John

27.

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

28.

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

Olney, Judith

29.

In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

Clark, J. Reuben

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The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

31.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

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

Jerome, St.

33.

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

Hegel, Georg

34.

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

Albrecht, Karl

35.

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

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Holtz, Lou

40.

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

41.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

42.

The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

43.

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

44.

In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

Dix, Dorothy

45.

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?

46.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

47.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales