Motivational Quotes

Service

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

- Madame de Stael

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Moody, Paul D.

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

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

Albrecht, Karl

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Selye, Hans

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ade, George

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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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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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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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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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Tracy, Brian

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

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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Jerome, St.

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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 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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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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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Ford, Henry

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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Einstein, Albert

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Johnson

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

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

Adams, Douglas

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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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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Rohn, Jim

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