Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Service

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

Johnson

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

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

Jerome, St.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

Bible

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

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

12.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Selye, Hans

16.

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

Fillmore, Charles

17.

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

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

20.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

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

Leonard, Steve

22.

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

23.

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

Seneca

24.

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

Holtz, Lou

25.

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.

26.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

27.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

28.

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

29.

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

30.

We came here to serve not be served.

31.

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

Ward, William A.

32.

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

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

34.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

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.

36.

Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

Wieder, Marcia

37.

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

Adams, Douglas

38.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

39.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

40.

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

Henderson, Nelson

41.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

43.

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

Cook, James R.

44.

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

Moody, Paul D.

45.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

46.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Hansen, Mark Victor

48.

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

Olney, Judith

49.

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

Dhammapada