Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Dhammapada

Best Quotes about 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

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.

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

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

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

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

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Mandino, Og

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

Johnson

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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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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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Henderson, Nelson

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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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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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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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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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Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Ade, George

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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

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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Doherty, Henry L.

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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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 high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Cook, James R.

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