Motivational Quotes

Service

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.

Best Quotes about Service

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Buck, Pearl S.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Jerome, St.

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

Homer

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

Selye, Hans

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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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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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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

23.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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Eliot, Charles W.

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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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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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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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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Ade, George

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

Mandino, Og

43.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Holtz, Lou

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Einstein, 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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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