Motivational Quotes

Service

No man can help another without helping himself.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Service

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.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Rohn, Jim

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.

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.

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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

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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.

12.

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

13.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

14.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

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

Homer

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

Voltaire

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In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

24.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Selye, Hans

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

Adams, John

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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Make sure somebody need you.

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

Mandino, Og

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What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Westcott, Bishop

33.

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

Jerome, St.

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

Cook, James R.

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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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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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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.