Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

1.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

2.

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

Albrecht, Karl

3.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

4.

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

5.

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

Homer

6.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

7.

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

8.

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

Rohn, Jim

9.

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

10.

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

Henderson, Nelson

11.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

Tracy, Brian

13.

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

14.

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

15.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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.

17.

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

Ward, William A.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Jewish

26.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

27.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Moody, Paul D.

29.

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

Chah, Achaan

30.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

31.

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

Adams, John

32.

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

Wieder, Marcia

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

36.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

41.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

42.

Make sure somebody need you.

43.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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

Olney, Judith

45.

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

Ade, George

46.

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

Johnson

47.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

48.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

King Jr. Martin Luther

50.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales