Motivational Quotes

Service

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Service

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

Moody, Paul D.

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.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Augustine, St.

10.

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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Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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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Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

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

Homer

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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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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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

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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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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Johnson

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

32.

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

33.

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?

34.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Holtz, Lou

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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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

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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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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

45.

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

Selye, Hans

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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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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

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