Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Churchill, Winston

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

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Seneca

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

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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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The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Adams, John

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ward, William A.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Cook, James R.

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The foundation stone of the whole scheme is service. Service to the people, a service that will lighten, brighten, and make more profitable the lives of the majority who do the necessary work of the world.

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

Voltaire

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

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Augustine, St.

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

Moore, Marcia

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

41.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ford, Henry

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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