Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.

Ortenberg, Elisabeth Claiborne

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

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

Dhammapada

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

11.

We came here to serve not be served.

12.

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

Henderson, Nelson

13.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

14.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Rohn, Jim

15.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

16.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

17.

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

18.

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

Seneca

19.

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

Jerome, St.

20.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Confucius

24.

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

Mandino, Og

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

27.

What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Westcott, Bishop

28.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

29.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Selye, Hans

31.

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

Hegel, Georg

32.

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

Olney, Judith

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Proverb, Jewish

36.

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.

37.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Boetcker, William

43.

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

44.

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

46.

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

Fillmore, Charles

47.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

48.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

49.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.