Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Service

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

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

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Seneca

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

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

10.

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

Henderson, Nelson

11.

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

12.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

13.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

14.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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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

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

17.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

18.

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

19.

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

Confucius

20.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

21.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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.

23.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

24.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

30.

Make sure somebody need you.

31.

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?

32.

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

33.

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

34.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

35.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

36.

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

Homer

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

41.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Rohn, Jim

44.

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

Ade, George

45.

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

46.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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.

48.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

49.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth