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

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

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Adams, John

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Antoinette, Marie

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Leamer, Laurence

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Voltaire

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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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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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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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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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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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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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

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

Homer

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Chah, Achaan

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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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Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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 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