Motivational Quotes

Service

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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Best Quotes about Service

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

Olney, Judith

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

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

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

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

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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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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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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Make sure somebody need you.

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

Ade, George

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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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And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. [Mark 10:44]

Bible

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Johnson

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Henderson, Nelson

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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Rohn, Jim

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita