Motivational Quotes

Service

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

- Hansen, Mark Victor

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Homer

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

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

Adams, Douglas

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

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

Adams, John

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Westcott, Bishop

10.

Make sure somebody need you.

11.

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

Hegel, Georg

12.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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.

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

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

Ade, George

22.

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

Jerome, St.

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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.

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Seneca

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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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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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.

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

Selye, Hans

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

Voltaire

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Henderson, Nelson

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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

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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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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish