Motivational Quotes

Service

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

- Chisholm, Shirley Anita

Best Quotes about Service

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

Clark, J. Reuben

Make sure somebody need you.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Johnson

There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

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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Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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

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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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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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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Homer

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ward, William A.

28.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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

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

Selye, Hans

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

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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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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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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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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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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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.

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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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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

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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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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Tracy, Brian

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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