Motivational Quotes

Service

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

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Best Quotes about Service

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]

Bible

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Churchill, Winston

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

Selye, Hans

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Ade, George

19.

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

Hegel, Georg

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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.

21.

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

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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.

25.

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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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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The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Moore, Marcia

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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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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

Chah, Achaan

31.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

35.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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

42.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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We came here to serve not be served.

44.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Ford, Henry

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

Bhagavad Gita