Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Doherty, Henry L.

Best Quotes about Service

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.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Henderson, Nelson

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

11.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

12.

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

Albrecht, Karl

13.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

15.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Ford, Henry

16.

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

17.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

18.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

19.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

21.

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

22.

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

Chah, Achaan

23.

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

Selye, Hans

24.

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.

25.

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

26.

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

Antoinette, Marie

27.

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

28.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

29.

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

30.

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

31.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

Boetcker, William

33.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Leamer, Laurence

38.

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

39.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

40.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

41.

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

Moore, Marcia

42.

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

43.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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

45.

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

Hegel, Georg

46.

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

47.

I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the top of the list somewhere is to give pleasure to others.

48.

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

49.

Make sure somebody need you.

50.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish