Motivational Quotes

Service

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Service

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

Ade, George

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

Einstein, Albert

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

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

Adams, John

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

Moody, Paul D.

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

Einstein, Albert

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Westcott, Bishop

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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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

16.

We came here to serve not be served.

17.

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

Johnson

18.

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

Jerome, St.

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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

20.

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

Wieder, Marcia

21.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

23.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

24.

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

Ward, William A.

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Moore, Marcia

30.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

31.

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

32.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

33.

Make sure somebody need you.

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

39.

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

Holtz, Lou

40.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

41.

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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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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No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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.

46.

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Auchincloss, Louis