Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Service

Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

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.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

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

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Homer

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Seneca

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

Bible

14.

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

Selye, Hans

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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]

Bible

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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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

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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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The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Mandino, Og

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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

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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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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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.