Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Auchincloss, Louis

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

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

Ade, George

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

Homer

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

Antoinette, Marie

11.

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

12.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

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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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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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

16.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

17.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Benjamin Disraeli

20.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

Seneca

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

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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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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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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

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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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The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Leamer, Laurence

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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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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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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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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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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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Make sure somebody need you.

35.

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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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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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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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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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Gropius, Walter

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

Henderson, Nelson

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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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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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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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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 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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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 road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma