Motivational Quotes

Service

I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bible

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

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

Olney, Judith

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Seneca

12.

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

Homer

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

15.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

16.

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

Moore, Marcia

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

Tracy, Brian

18.

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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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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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

21.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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

Adams, Douglas

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ward, William A.

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.

Voltaire

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

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Selye, Hans

44.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

45.

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.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Leamer, Laurence

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

Leonard, Steve