Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Service

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.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Confucius

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Bible

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

12.

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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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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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

Jerome, St.

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

Selye, Hans

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

Cook, James R.

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Homer

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Adams, John

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

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

Henderson, Nelson

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Wolfe, Beran

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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

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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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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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We came here to serve not be served.