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

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

Cook, James R.

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

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

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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

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

Chah, Achaan

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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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Ruskin, John

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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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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Henderson, Nelson

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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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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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Make sure somebody need you.

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.