Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Henderson, Nelson

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Holtz, Lou

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

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

Fillmore, Charles

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

11.

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

Leamer, Laurence

12.

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

13.

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

14.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]

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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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We came here to serve not be served.

17.

And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. [Mark 10:44]

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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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Homer

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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

22.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Cook, James R.

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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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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

27.

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.

28.

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

Antoinette, Marie

29.

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

Johnson

30.

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

Tracy, Brian

31.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

32.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

33.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

34.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Adams, Douglas

35.

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

Moore, Marcia

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

38.

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

Adams, John

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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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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

41.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

42.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Voltaire

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales