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

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

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

Tracy, Brian

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Make sure somebody need you.

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

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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 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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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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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Selye, Hans

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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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 only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away.

Moore, Marcia

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

Homer

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

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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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Wieder, Marcia

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