Motivational Quotes

Service

Find a need and fill it.

- Peale, Ruth Stafford

Best Quotes about Service

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Hegel, Georg

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

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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

Ward, William A.

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

Bible

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.

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

Selye, Hans

What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Westcott, Bishop

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

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

Homer

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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Doherty, Henry L.

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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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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 man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Johnson

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Einstein, Albert

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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

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

Jerome, St.

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ade, George

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Albrecht, Karl

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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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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Adams, John

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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