Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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.

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

Seneca

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

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Adams, Douglas

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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.

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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.

22.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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

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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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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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.

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

Selye, Hans

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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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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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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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Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Moore, Marcia

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Antoinette, Marie

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Be alert to give service -- what counts most in life is what we do for others.

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Ade, George

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.

Ward, William A.