Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Westcott, Bishop

Best Quotes about Service

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

Jerome, St.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Churchill, Winston

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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.

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

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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.

11.

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

Fillmore, Charles

12.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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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

14.

The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Moore, Marcia

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

20.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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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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

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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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

28.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

29.

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

30.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

31.

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

Voltaire

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

36.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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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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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

41.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wieder, Marcia

44.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.