Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Moody, Paul D.

Best Quotes about Service

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

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

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

Make sure somebody need you.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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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

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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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?

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

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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cook, James R.

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bible

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar