Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Antoinette, Marie

Best Quotes about Service

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Boetcker, William

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Seneca

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

We came here to serve not be served.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

Einstein, Albert

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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.

Ortenberg, Elisabeth Claiborne

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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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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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 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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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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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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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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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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Ade, George

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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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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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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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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.

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

Selye, Hans

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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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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

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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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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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.