Motivational Quotes

Service

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.

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Best Quotes about Service

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

Dhammapada

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

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

Moody, Paul D.

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

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

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

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

10.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

11.

The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.

12.

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

13.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

14.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

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

17.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

18.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

19.

There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

20.

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

Confucius

21.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

Albrecht, Karl

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

27.

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

Proverb, Jewish

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

32.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

33.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

37.

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

38.

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

Antoinette, Marie

39.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

40.

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

Westcott, Bishop

41.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

42.

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

Augustine, St.

43.

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

Wieder, Marcia

44.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Moore, Marcia

46.

We came here to serve not be served.

47.

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

48.

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

Henderson, Nelson

49.

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

Ade, George

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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