Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Dhammapada

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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?

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Ade, George

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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Albrecht, Karl

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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We came here to serve not be served.

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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Voltaire

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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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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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Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

Chah, Achaan

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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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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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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Johnson

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

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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