Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Homer

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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

Proverb, Jewish

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Make sure somebody need you.

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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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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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

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

Johnson

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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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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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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Mandino, Og

25.

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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We came here to serve not be served.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Ade, George

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

Seneca

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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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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Holtz, Lou

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

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

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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

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.