Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Selye, Hans

Best Quotes about Service

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Cook, James R.

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.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Ward, William A.

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

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Ade, George

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

Selye, Hans

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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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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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.

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

Voltaire

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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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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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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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Einstein, Albert