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

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

Ade, George

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Auchincloss, Louis

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Teach me to do the best I can To help and cheer my fellowman; Teach me to lose my selfish need, And glory in the larger deed, Which smothers the road and lights the day, For all who chance to come my way.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ward, William A.

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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.

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

Albrecht, Karl

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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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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

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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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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.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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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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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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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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Make sure somebody need you.

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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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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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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Homer

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