Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Cook, James R.

Best Quotes about Service

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

Seneca

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

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

Bible

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?

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Moody, Paul D.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Olney, Judith

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

Mandino, Og

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

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

17.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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.

19.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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

24.

We came here to serve not be served.

25.

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

Ade, George

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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

28.

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Leamer, Laurence

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Chah, Achaan

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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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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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He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Homer

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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

41.

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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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...

Einstein, Albert

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