Quotes on Service
Only a life lived for others is the life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
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If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
Jim Rohn
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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.
Earl Nightingale
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They’re only truly great who are truly good.
George Chapman
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There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holmes
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There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.
George Herbert Walker Bush
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Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth.
Albert Schweitzer
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A truly spiritual man's creed is not live and let live, but live and help live.
Roger Babson
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Our country can not exist on the renunciation of the heroic souls of the past. Public service, from the action of the humblest voter to the most exalted office, can not be made a mere matter of hire and salary. The supporters of our institutions must be inspired by a more dominent motive than a conviction that their actions are going to be profitable. We can not lower our standards to what we think will pay, but we must raise them to what we think is right. It is only in that direction that we shall find true patriotism.
Calvin Coolidge
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The best service we can do for the needy and the unfortunate is to help them in such manner that their self-respect, their ability to help themselves, shall not be injured but augmented.
Calvin Coolidge
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
Woodrow Wilson
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It is not through selfishness or wastefulness or arrogance, but through self-denial, conservation, and service, that we shall build up the American spirit.
Calvin Coolidge
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The successful person is one who is able to take his talents and invest them in the business of living in a manner that leads to the accomplishment of a full life of service.
Sol Roth
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You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
Albert Schweitzer
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There are only four ways to create value (in a digital economy): information, entertainment, convenience, and savings.
Jay Walker
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There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple.
Lee Iacocca
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Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don´t have to have a college degree to serve. You don´t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike you. In order to produce a successful life, one must find ways to please his fellow man. That is, find out what goods and services his fellow man values, and is willing to pay for, and then acquire the necessary skills and education to provide it.
Walter E. Williams
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The noblest question in the world is, "What good may I do in it?"
Benjamin Franklin
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Doing good to men is the only service of God in our power; and to imitate his beneficence is to glorify him.
Benjamin Franklin
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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
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Discover your uniqueness. Learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.
Larry Winget
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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa
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No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving: as well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing to give the sea because they are not rivers. Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We all have something to give. So if you know how to read, find someone who can't. If you've got a hammer, find a nail. If you're not hungry, not lonely, not in trouble - seek out someone who is.
George Herbert Walker Bush
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I hear people say: "Oh, if I were only rich, I would do great things to help people." But we can all be rich in love and generosity. Moreover, if we give with care, if we find out the exact wants of those who need our help most, we are giving our own loving interest and concern, which is worth more than all the money in the world.
Albert Schweitzer
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I find life an exciting business - and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Helen Keller
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe
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The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To see all without looking; to hear all without listening; to be attentive without being servile; to anticipate without being presumptuous.
César Ritz
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No person was ever honored for what they received. Honor has been the reward for what they gave.
Calvin Coolidge
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You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden
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Our most valuable possessions are those which can be shared without lessening: those which, when shared, multiply. Our least valuable possessions are those which, when divided, are diminished.
William Danforth
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Organizations that refuse to accept poor performance at any level and that take the time to deal with every slip in service do well regardless of economic conditions. They thrive in spite of it all just because they expect, demand, and deliver excellence at every level.
Larry Winget
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Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.
Larry Winget
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Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to the service you provide.
Larry Winget
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God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.
Mother Teresa
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For the most part, income is a result of one's productivity and the value that people place on that productivity.
Walter E. Williams
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One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving one's fellow man, as it has throughout most of human history, but by serving and pleasing him.
Walter E. Williams
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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?"
Brian Tracy
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The world does not pay men for that which they "know". It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
Napoleon Hill
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There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
Napoleon Hill
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon
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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.
Albert Schweitzer
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Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Gretta Palmer
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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
Ann Radcliffe
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No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is left long without proper reward.
Booker Washington
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If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.
Roger Babson
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.
Viktor Frankl
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The only people who make money work in a mint. The rest of us must 'earn' money. This is what causes those who keep looking for something for nothing or a free ride to fail in life. The only way to earn money is by providing people with services or products which are needed and useful.
Earl Nightingale
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Success is not the result of making money. Making money is the result of success. And success is in direct proportion to our service.
Earl Nightingale
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Being passionate about something is the key to success. But using that passion to help others is the key to happiness.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Whether or not we belong to a church or service organization or have a job that provides meaningful service opportunities, not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love.
Stephen Covey
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The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
Og Mandino
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You have to be before you can do, and you have to do before you can have.
Zig Ziglar
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served by others as little as possible and to serve others as much as possible.
Leo Tolstoy
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Learn and grow all you can; serve and befriend all you can; enrich and inspire all you can.
William Arthur Ward
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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.
Sally Koch
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Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer
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As long as you do what's proper to your nature, and accept what the world's nature has in store - as long as you work for others' good, by any and all means - what is there that can harm you?
Marcus Aurelius
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The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It's such a simple idea. It's the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.
Charlie Munger
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Someone graduating from college thinks, and is told, that he needs to get a job, as if the important thing were becoming a member of an institution. A more direct way to put it would be: you need to start doing something people want. You don't need to join a company to do that. All a company is is a group of people working together to do something people want. It's doing something people want that matters, not joining the group.
Paul Graham
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Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfilment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer The payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Great men cannot be great in a vacuum. The men we respect - who truly deserve our respect - are the men who have accomplished great things in pouring themselves out for others.
Meg Meeker
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Always start out to give more than you get, to give more than is expected of you, to treat the other person more than fairly. And that is the secret to success. The more you help others, the more prosperous you will be personally.
John Templeton
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There isn't any such thing as being your own boss in this world unless you're a tramp, and then there's the constable.
George Horace Lorimer
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Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough?
Derek Sivers
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
Buckminster Fuller
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There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.
Ray Dalio
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Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
Mother Teresa
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There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society.
Benjamin Franklin
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When I am employed in serving others, I do not look upon myself as conferring favors, but as paying debts. I have received much kindness from men to whom I shall never have an opportunity of making the least direct returns; and numberless mercies from God, who is infinitely above being benefited by our services. Those kindnesses from men I can, therefore, only return on their fellow-men, and I can only show my gratitude for those mercies from God by a readiness to help His other children.
Benjamin Franklin
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God doesn't need your good works, but your neighbor does.
Gustaf Wingren
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When we focus on others, on helping them or simply providing a good example, our own personal fears and troubles will diminish. With fear or heartache no longer our primary concern, we don't have time for it.
Ryan Holiday
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