Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Tracy, Brian

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Buck, Pearl S.

10.

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.

11.

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

Westcott, Bishop

12.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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

15.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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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.

17.

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

Chah, Achaan

19.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

20.

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

21.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

26.

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

30.

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

Augustine, St.

31.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.

Ortenberg, Elisabeth Claiborne

33.

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

Moore, Marcia

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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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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 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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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.

38.

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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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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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

41.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

42.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

45.

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

Selye, Hans

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Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro