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

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

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

Dhammapada

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Adams, John

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Ward, William A.

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Selye, Hans

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

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

Einstein, Albert

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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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?

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cook, James R.

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Antoinette, Marie

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Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.

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Make sure somebody need you.

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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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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 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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Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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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.

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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 the privilege of living on this earth.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Moore, Marcia

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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