Motivational Quotes

Service

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

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Best Quotes about Service

What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Westcott, Bishop

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.

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

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Leamer, Laurence

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Churchill, Winston

Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

Wieder, Marcia

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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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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 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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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

18.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

19.

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

Augustine, St.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

27.

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Homer

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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 is more than another unless he does more than another.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

35.

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

Selye, Hans

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

Voltaire

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

Confucius

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.