Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Ligario, Cicero Pro

Best Quotes about Service

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.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ward, William A.

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

Seneca

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

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Ade, George

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Einstein, Albert

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We came here to serve not be served.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

42.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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

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Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Leonard, Steve

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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