Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Chah, Achaan

Best Quotes about Service

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Confucius

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

Homer

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Ade, George

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

11.

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?

12.

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Selye, Hans

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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We came here to serve not be served.

20.

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

21.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Mandino, Og

31.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Cook, James R.

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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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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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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Johnson

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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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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