Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Auchincloss, Louis

Best Quotes about Service

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

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

Wolfe, Beran

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

Ade, George

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

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

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

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

Ford, Henry

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Einstein, Albert

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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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Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Mandino, Og

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

Bible

24.

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

Selye, Hans

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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

27.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Cook, James R.

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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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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Homer

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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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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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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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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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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

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There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

43.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Holtz, Lou

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