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

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?

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

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

Adams, Douglas

The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Proverb, Jewish

We came here to serve not be served.

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

10.

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

Antoinette, Marie

11.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

12.

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

Chah, Achaan

13.

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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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.

15.

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

Selye, Hans

16.

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

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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.

18.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Buck, Pearl S.

19.

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

Moore, Marcia

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

24.

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

25.

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

Hegel, Georg

26.

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

27.

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

Adams, John

28.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

29.

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

30.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

32.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

33.

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

Ford, Henry

34.

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

Henderson, Nelson

35.

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

Jerome, St.

36.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

Cook, James R.

39.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

Albrecht, Karl

41.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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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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.

45.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

47.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales