Motivational Quotes

Service

Find a need and fill it.

- Peale, Ruth Stafford

Best Quotes about Service

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

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

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

Johnson

10.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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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.

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Seneca

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

Selye, Hans

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We came here to serve not be served.

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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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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Voltaire

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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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