Motivational Quotes

Service

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Service

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Adams, Douglas

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

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.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Adams, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Homer

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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

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Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Leonard, Steve

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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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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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Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.

Ortenberg, Elisabeth Claiborne

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

Chah, Achaan