Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Service

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

Wolfe, Beran

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

Leamer, Laurence

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Fillmore, Charles

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

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

Henderson, Nelson

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales

We came here to serve not be served.

10.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

11.

Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.

Ward, William A.

12.

Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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.

14.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

15.

And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. [Mark 10:44]

Bible

16.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

17.

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

18.

Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.

Ruskin, John

19.

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

22.

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

Westcott, Bishop

23.

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

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

Homer

25.

He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.

Aue, Hartmann Von

26.

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

27.

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Doherty, Henry L.

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Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.

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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.

30.

It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.

31.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.

Steele, Sir Richard

32.

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

33.

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.

Pike, Albert

34.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

35.

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

36.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

37.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

Seneca

40.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

41.

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

42.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

44.

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

Mandino, Og

45.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

50.

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo