Motivational Quotes

Service

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.

Best Quotes about Service

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

Einstein, Albert

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.

Aue, Hartmann Von

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

Chah, Achaan

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Ward, William A.

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'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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If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Hegel, Georg

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

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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.

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

Adams, John

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Homer

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Holtz, Lou

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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Henderson, Nelson

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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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

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

Cook, James R.

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

Voltaire

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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