Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

Best Quotes about Service

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Olney, Judith

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Adams, Douglas

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.

Make sure somebody need you.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Augustine, St.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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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 more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

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Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

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

Homer

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

Westcott, Bishop

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Bible

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hegel, Georg

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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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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 more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Boetcker, William

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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

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

Leamer, Laurence

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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Holtz, Lou

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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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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Selye, Hans

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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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Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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.

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Henderson, Nelson

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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