Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Jerome, St.

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

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Dhammapada

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Homer

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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Selye, Hans

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The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

31.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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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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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Holtz, Lou

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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.

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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

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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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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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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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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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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Adams, John

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

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

Hegel, Georg