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

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.

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

We came here to serve not be served.

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

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

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

Ward, William A.

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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

Dix, Dorothy

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Bible

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

Anthony, Dr. 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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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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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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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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Make sure somebody need you.

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Seneca

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Doherty, Henry L.

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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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Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

Albrecht, Karl

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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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The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.