Quotes about service

"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. on service   

"He is great who confers the most benefits."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on service   

"No man can help another without helping himself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on service
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"We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty."

Fillmore, Charles on service   

"Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on service   

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

Ford, Henry on service
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"Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."

Franklin, Benjamin on service
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"If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself."

Franklin, Benjamin on service
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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 on service
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"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"To oblige persons often costs little and helps much."

Gracian, Baltasar on service   

"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 on service   

"Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary."

Hale, Nathan on service   

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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 on service   

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

Hegel, Georg on service   

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

Henderson, Nelson on service
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"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated."

Holtz, Lou on service   

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

Homer on service   

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

Hubbard, Elbert on service   

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on service   

"Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse."

Jerome, St. on service   

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

Johnson on service   

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

Leamer, Laurence on service   

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

Leonard, Steve on service   

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro on service   

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on service   

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

Mandino, Og on service
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"He who lives not to others, lives little to himself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on service   

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

Moody, Paul D. on service
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"The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away."

Moore, Marcia on service   

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

Mother Teresa on service
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"One should be of service rather than be conspicuous."

Motto on service   

"To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself."

Nightingale, Earl on service   

"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 on service   

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

Olney, Judith on service   

"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 on service   

"To survive, men and business and corporations must serve."

Patterson, John H. on service   

"Always do more than is required of you."

Patton, George S. on service
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