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

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.

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

Ward, William A.

Be alert to give service -- what counts most in life is what we do for others.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Rohn, Jim

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.

Ramdas, Swami

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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

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The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...

Einstein, Albert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

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

Hegel, Georg

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

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The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

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

Wolfe, Beran

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My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

Woods, Tiger

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Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

Ade, George

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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

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

Jerome, St.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.

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In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

Clark, J. Reuben

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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

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

36.

We came here to serve not be served.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Leonard, Steve

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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.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Auchincloss, Louis

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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

Chah, Achaan

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the top of the list somewhere is to give pleasure to others.

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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

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

Dhammapada