Motivational Quotes

Service

The public must and will be served.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

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

Voltaire

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Jerome, St.

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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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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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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 oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Make sure somebody need you.

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

Einstein, Albert

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

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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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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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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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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Edelman, Marian Wright

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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