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

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Confucius

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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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

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Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

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

Seneca

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

Homer

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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Adams, John

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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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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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

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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

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Adams, Douglas

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

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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

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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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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

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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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

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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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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.

Voltaire

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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Selye, Hans

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

Antoinette, Marie

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Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Mandino, Og

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Johnson

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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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