Motivational Quotes

Service

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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Best Quotes about 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

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

Seneca

Make sure somebody need you.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

Ward, William A.

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

10.

We came here to serve not be served.

11.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Holtz, Lou

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

18.

Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

19.

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

21.

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.

22.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Doherty, Henry L.

25.

If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated.

Warren, Frank F.

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

Adams, John

27.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

28.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

34.

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

Tracy, Brian

35.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Homer

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

Ade, George

38.

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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

40.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

41.

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

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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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The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Proverb, Jewish

44.

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

45.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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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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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

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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