Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Service

Make sure somebody need you.

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

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.

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

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

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Homer

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ade, George

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

Chah, Achaan

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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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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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Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

Albrecht, Karl

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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.

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Cook, James R.

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

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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.