Motivational Quotes

Service

The public must and will be served.

- Penn, William

Best Quotes about Service

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.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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.

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

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

Cook, James R.

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

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

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

Adams, John

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We came here to serve not be served.

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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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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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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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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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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Buck, Pearl S.

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ward, William A.

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Moore, Marcia

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

Homer

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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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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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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

Chah, Achaan

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Albrecht, Karl

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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