Customer Service Quotes Database

800+ bits of wisdom to delight and inspire your team

  • "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
    • Thomas Edison
  • "You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."
    • Carl Jung
  • "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
    • Benjamin Franklin
  • "A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so."
    • Mahatma Gandhi
  • "Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier."
    • Mother Teresa
  • "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."
    • Calvin Coolidge
  • "It's not what you say, but how you say it!"
    • Mae West
  • "Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
    • Blaise Pascal
  • "Care more than others think wise. Risk more than others think safe. Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others think possible."
    • Claude Bissell
  • "Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards."
    • Elbert Hubbard
  • "It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
    • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • "What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
    • George Eliot
  • "The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
    • Helen Keller
  • "A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."
    • Henrik Ibsen
  • "Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big."
    • Lao Tzu
  • "One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others."
    • Lewis Carroll
  • "Always do what is right. It will gratify most of the people, and astound the rest."
    • Mark Twain
  • "People will forget what you said. They will forget what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel."
    • Maya Angelou
  • "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
    • Samuel Johnson
  • "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
    • Thomas Jefferson
  • "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
    • Winston Churchill
  • "When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king."
    • John Wanamaker

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