Motivational Quotes

Service

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Service

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.

Ortenberg, Elisabeth Claiborne

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.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Ward, William A.

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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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 oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Ade, George

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Mandino, Og

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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.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Moore, Marcia

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Adams, John

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ford, Henry

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

Chah, Achaan

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Holtz, Lou

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