Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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.

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

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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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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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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Tracy, Brian

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Jerome, St.

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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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I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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Carver, George Washington

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

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

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

Leamer, Laurence

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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.