Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Leamer, Laurence

Best Quotes about Service

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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.

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

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

Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.

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

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

10.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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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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

16.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Seneca

23.

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

Hegel, Georg

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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

25.

The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Moore, Marcia

26.

The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

27.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

28.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

30.

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

Johnson

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

33.

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

34.

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

Westcott, Bishop

35.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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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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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

39.

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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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?

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

Wieder, Marcia

42.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Voltaire

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

Mandino, Og

49.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.