Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

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

Hegel, Georg

Make sure somebody need you.

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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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We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Fillmore, Charles

12.

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

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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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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

19.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

23.

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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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

26.

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

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

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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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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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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

37.

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

Adams, Douglas

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Jerome, St.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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