Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Selye, Hans

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

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Churchill, Winston

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

10.

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

11.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

12.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Homer

14.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Ford, Henry

18.

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Fillmore, Charles

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

20.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

22.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

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.

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Ade, George

28.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

30.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Adams, Douglas

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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

41.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

42.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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

44.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

45.

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

46.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

47.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

48.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

49.

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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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