Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

Best Quotes about Service

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

Chah, Achaan

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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.

Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Confucius

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

Auchincloss, Louis

10.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

11.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

14.

We came here to serve not be served.

15.

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

Selye, Hans

16.

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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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.

Voltaire

18.

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

Ade, George

20.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

22.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Buck, Pearl S.

23.

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

24.

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

Augustine, St.

25.

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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

28.

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

Hegel, Georg

29.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Moore, Marcia

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

Henderson, Nelson

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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

35.

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

Leamer, Laurence

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Make sure somebody need you.

37.

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

38.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

39.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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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

41.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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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.

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

Mandino, Og

47.

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

Cook, James R.

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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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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