Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Johnson

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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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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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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Ford, Henry

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that somebody you?

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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.

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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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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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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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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Chah, Achaan

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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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We came here to serve not be served.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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