Top 200 Service Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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2. “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

— Albert Schweitzer

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3. “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

— Mother Teresa

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4. “Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.”

— Mother Teresa

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5. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.”

— Mother Teresa

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6. “The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.”

— Billy Graham

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7. “Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. By transforming that faith into living acts of love, we put ourselves in contact with God Himself, with Jesus our Lord.”

— Mother Teresa

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8. “Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.”

— Mother Teresa

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9. “Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.”

— Mother Teresa

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

— Princess Diana

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11. “Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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12. “I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.”

— Mother Teresa

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13. “Pain is weakness leaving the body.”

— United States Marine Corps

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14. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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15. “Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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16. “When you learn, teach. When you get, give.”

— Maya Angelou

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17. “Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.”

— Barbara Mikulski

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18. “Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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19. “Let’s do something beautiful for God.”

— Mother Teresa

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20. “If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”

— Mother Teresa

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21. “Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don’t work for you, you work for them.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

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22. “Good leaders must first become good servants.”

— Robert K. Greenleaf

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23. “Customer service should not be a department, customer service is everyone’s job.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

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24. “Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.”

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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25. “There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.”

— Nelson Mandela

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26. “As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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27. “The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth’s most customer-centric company.”

— Jeff Bezos

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28. “Every business is a service business. Does your service put a smile on the customer’s face?”

— Philip Kotler

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29. “A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.”

— Mother Teresa

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30. “Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them. We know if we treat our employees right, they’ll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they’ll come back.”

— J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.

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31. “Your rewards, all the years of your life, will be in precise proportion to your service. You are here to serve others, just as they serve you.”

— Earl Nightingale

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32. “Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.”

— Jack Ma

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33. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

— Bill Gates

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34. “One customer, well taken care of, could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.”

— Jim Rohn

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35. “You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.”

— Zig Ziglar

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36. “True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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37. “If you build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”

— Jeff Bezos

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38. “There is only one boss. The customer.”

— Sam Walton

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39. “Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

— Zig Ziglar

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40. “Stop selling. Start helping.”

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Henry Ford

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42. “If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.”

— Jeff Bezos

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43. “If you look after your staff, they’ll look after your customers. It’s that simple.”

— Richard Branson

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44. “Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.”

— Jim Rohn

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45. “The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.”

— Brian Tracy

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46. “Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.”

— Brian Tracy

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47. “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”

— Joseph Campbell

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48. “Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success – and success is in direct proportion to our service.”

— Earl Nightingale

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49. “We’re not competitor obsessed, we’re customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.”

— Jeff Bezos

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50. “Customer service is not a department, it’s everyone’s job.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

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