Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Service

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

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

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

Jerome, St.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Voltaire

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

Adams, Douglas

Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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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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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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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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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

19.

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

Selye, Hans

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ade, George

22.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Wieder, Marcia

25.

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

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

Johnson

31.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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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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

34.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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.

36.

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

Adams, John

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Ford, Henry

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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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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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Make sure somebody need you.

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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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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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