Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Auchincloss, Louis

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Tracy, Brian

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

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

Einstein, Albert

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Selye, Hans

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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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Wolfe, Beran

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

Moore, Marcia

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Adams, John

18.

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

19.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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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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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Seneca

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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

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

Voltaire

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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 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 man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Proverb, Jewish

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

31.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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

Jerome, St.

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Clark, J. Reuben

43.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated.

Warren, Frank F.

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

Cook, James R.

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

Holtz, Lou

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.