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

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

Churchill, Winston

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

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

Adams, Douglas

Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

Wieder, Marcia

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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?

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

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

11.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

12.

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

13.

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

Mandino, Og

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Confucius

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

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

Cook, James R.

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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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We came here to serve not be served.

27.

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.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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

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

Chah, Achaan

35.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

39.

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

Bible

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Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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

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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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Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

Albrecht, Karl

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

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

Johnson