Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Service

1.

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

Churchill, Winston

2.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

3.

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

Westcott, Bishop

4.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

5.

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

Bhagavad Gita

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Einstein, Albert

9.

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.

10.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]

Bible

11.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

12.

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

Adams, John

13.

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

Chah, Achaan

14.

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

15.

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

Albrecht, Karl

16.

If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated.

Warren, Frank F.

17.

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

Seneca

18.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

22.

We came here to serve not be served.

23.

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

Augustine, St.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Antoinette, Marie

27.

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

Adams, Douglas

28.

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

29.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

30.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

31.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

32.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

34.

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

Holtz, Lou

35.

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

Ford, Henry

36.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

37.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

38.

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

Hegel, Georg

39.

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

40.

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

41.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

42.

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?

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

46.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Buck, Pearl S.

47.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

48.

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.