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

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

Jerome, St.

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Voltaire

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

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.

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

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

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 give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Adams, Douglas

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

15.

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

16.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

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

Seneca

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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

21.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

30.

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

Ade, George

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In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.

Dix, Dorothy

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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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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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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 he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

44.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales