Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Henderson, Nelson

Best Quotes about Service

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Jerome, St.

11.

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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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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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

15.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

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

Tracy, Brian

17.

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

Holtz, Lou

18.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

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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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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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Leamer, Laurence

25.

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

26.

Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Leonard, Steve

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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]

Bible

28.

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

Ade, George

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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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We came here to serve not be served.

34.

Make sure somebody need you.

35.

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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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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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Moody, Paul D.