Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Antoinette, Marie

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

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

Adams, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

Cook, James R.

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

15.

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

Moore, Marcia

16.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

18.

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

Voltaire

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

22.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

24.

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

Wieder, Marcia

25.

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

26.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

28.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

30.

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

Chah, Achaan

31.

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

Homer

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

40.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

42.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

43.

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

Jerome, St.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]

Bible

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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

47.

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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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.

49.

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

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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