Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

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

Tracy, Brian

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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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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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Make sure somebody need you.

12.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Seneca

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Cook, James R.

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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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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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We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Nightingale, Earl

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

21.

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

Moore, Marcia

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

Chah, Achaan

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The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.

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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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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 he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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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.

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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

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

Antoinette, Marie

43.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Mandino, Og

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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