Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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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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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 man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

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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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Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.

Ward, William A.

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There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

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

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

Selye, Hans

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Make sure somebody need you.

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

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

Adams, John

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

Voltaire