Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Westcott, Bishop

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.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ade, George

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

10.

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

11.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

12.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Chah, Achaan

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Adams, John

18.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Seneca

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

Rohn, Jim

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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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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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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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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Tracy, Brian

34.

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

Dhammapada

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

Selye, Hans

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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

37.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

39.

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

Mandino, Og

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

41.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.