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

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

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.

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

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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Make sure somebody need you.

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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Ford, Henry

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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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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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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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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

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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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

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

Cook, James R.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Leamer, Laurence

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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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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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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 public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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