Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Selye, Hans

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

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

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Bible

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

Homer

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Seneca

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

Selye, Hans

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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 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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Johnson

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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

Woods, Tiger

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

31.

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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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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Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Moore, Marcia

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

Adams, John

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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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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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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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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Chah, Achaan

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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.