Motivational Quotes

Service

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Service

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

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]

Bible

The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

10.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

Tracy, Brian

12.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Ward, William A.

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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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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

18.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

19.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

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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?

25.

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Voltaire

27.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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

29.

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

30.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

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

Johnson

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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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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

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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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We came here to serve not be served.