Motivational Quotes

Service

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

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Best Quotes about Service

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

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

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

Mandino, Og

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.

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

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.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

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

Voltaire

10.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

17.

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

Wieder, Marcia

18.

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

Hegel, Georg

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Fillmore, Charles

22.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

23.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

24.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

27.

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

Adams, Douglas

28.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

29.

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.

30.

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

Ford, Henry

31.

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

Henderson, Nelson

32.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

33.

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

Moore, Marcia

34.

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

Selye, Hans

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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.

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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

42.

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

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

46.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

49.

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

50.

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