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

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

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

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ward, William A.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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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Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Auchincloss, Louis

11.

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

12.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that somebody you?

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Cook, James R.

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

Seneca

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

Homer

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

28.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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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

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Johnson

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Adams, John

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

Selye, Hans

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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

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

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

Jerome, St.