Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Service

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

Voltaire

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

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

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

Selye, Hans

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

Moore, Marcia

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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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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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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Make sure somebody need you.

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He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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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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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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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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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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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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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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When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

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

Henderson, Nelson