Motivational Quotes

Service

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Service

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

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

Selye, Hans

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

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Jerome, St.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

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

Fillmore, Charles

11.

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

Ward, William A.

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Chah, Achaan

15.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Johnson

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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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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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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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

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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

32.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Seneca

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Auchincloss, Louis

44.

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Leamer, Laurence

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

Olney, Judith

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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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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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.