Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Service

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Bible

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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

11.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

12.

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

Holtz, Lou

13.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Moody, Paul D.

15.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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.

17.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

18.

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

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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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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Rohn, Jim

21.

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

Cook, James R.

23.

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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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?

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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.

26.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

Ward, William A.

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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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The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

30.

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

Chah, Achaan

32.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

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

Dhammapada

35.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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

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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 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

40.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

43.

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

Jerome, St.

44.

The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Moore, Marcia

45.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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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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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

48.

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

Selye, Hans

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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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No man can help another without helping himself.