Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Service

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Chah, Achaan

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

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

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

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

Cook, James R.

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

Ade, George

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

Seneca

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George 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

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Homer

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Holtz, Lou

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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Make sure somebody need you.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Einstein, Albert

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Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that somebody you?

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.