Motivational Quotes

Service

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Service

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Moody, Paul D.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Moore, Marcia

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

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

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

10.

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

Selye, Hans

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

15.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

19.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

20.

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

21.

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

Fillmore, Charles

22.

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

Wieder, Marcia

23.

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

Voltaire

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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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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

26.

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

Mandino, Og

27.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

Hegel, Georg

29.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

30.

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.

31.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

32.

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

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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

36.

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

Henderson, Nelson

37.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

38.

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

Adams, John

39.

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

40.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.

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

Chah, Achaan

42.

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

44.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

45.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Gandhi, Mahatma