Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Service

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that somebody you?

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

11.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ade, George

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.

Ortenberg, Elisabeth Claiborne

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

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

Bible

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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We came here to serve not be served.

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

Seneca

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Make sure somebody need you.

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

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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

35.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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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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Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Rohn, Jim

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

Einstein, Albert

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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