Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Clark, J. Reuben

Best Quotes about Service

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

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Adams, Douglas

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

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales

He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.

Aue, Hartmann Von

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Antoinette, Marie

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Henderson, Nelson

13.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

15.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Proverb, Jewish

18.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

19.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Adams, John

20.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

22.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

23.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Cook, James R.

32.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Auchincloss, Louis

33.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Moore, Marcia

37.

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

Hegel, Georg

38.

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

39.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

40.

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

41.

I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the top of the list somewhere is to give pleasure to others.

42.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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

Confucius