Motivational Quotes

Service

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

- Wolfe, Beran

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Moody, Paul D.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Antoinette, Marie

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.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Adams, Douglas

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

Fillmore, Charles

10.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

11.

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.

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

13.

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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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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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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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Selye, Hans

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Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

Albrecht, Karl

18.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

19.

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

Voltaire

21.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

26.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

28.

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

Jerome, St.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

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

Moore, Marcia

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

Leamer, Laurence

32.

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

33.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

34.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

35.

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.

36.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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?

39.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Cook, James R.

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

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

Ade, George

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.