Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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

Jerome, St.

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

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Cook, James R.

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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]

Bible

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

Ward, William A.

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

25.

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

Bible

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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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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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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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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Seneca

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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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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Moore, Marcia

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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

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

Wieder, Marcia

39.

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

Einstein, Albert

40.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Henderson, Nelson

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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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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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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Holtz, Lou

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

Westcott, Bishop