Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

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

Homer

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Dhammapada

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

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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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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

12.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Jerome, St.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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.

29.

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

Cook, James R.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

34.

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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Bible

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

Mandino, Og

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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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 difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Leamer, Laurence

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

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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.