Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Ford, Henry

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Hansen, Mark Victor

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

Make sure somebody need you.

10.

What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Westcott, Bishop

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Olney, Judith

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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.

15.

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

16.

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

Antoinette, Marie

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Fillmore, Charles

20.

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

Leonard, Steve

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

23.

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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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

25.

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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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.

27.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

28.

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

29.

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

30.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

33.

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

34.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Dhammapada

38.

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

Johnson

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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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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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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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.

44.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

45.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

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

Selye, Hans

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

Cervantes, Miguel De