Motivational Quotes

Service

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

- Chisholm, Shirley Anita

Best Quotes about Service

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

Homer

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

Bible

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Antoinette, Marie

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

11.

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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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Cook, James R.

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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.

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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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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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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ford, Henry

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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?

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Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

Einstein, Albert

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

41.

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

42.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

43.

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

Jerome, St.

44.

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

Voltaire

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Tracy, Brian

49.

We came here to serve not be served.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De