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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

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

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Leonard, Steve

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Henderson, Nelson

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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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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

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Voltaire

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

Wolfe, Beran

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Cook, James R.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Selye, Hans

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Jerome, St.

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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Ford, Henry

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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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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

Dix, Dorothy

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

Einstein, Albert

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The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Ade, George

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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Tracy, Brian

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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