Motivational Quotes

Service

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Dhammapada

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

Hubbard, Elbert

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Ford, Henry

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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

Homer

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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 alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

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

Jerome, St.

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

Albrecht, Karl

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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.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Wieder, Marcia

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ade, George

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The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Boetcker, William

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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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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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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Mandino, Og

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