Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Johnson

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

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

Adams, Douglas

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Chah, Achaan

What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Westcott, Bishop

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

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

Olney, Judith

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

Bible

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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.

Voltaire

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

Holtz, Lou

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We came here to serve not be served.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Eliot, Charles W.

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

Leamer, Laurence

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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Hegel, Georg

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mandino, Og

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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

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

Albrecht, Karl

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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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My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

Woods, Tiger

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.

Ruskin, John

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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.

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

Jerome, St.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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