Motivational Quotes

Service

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Service

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

Chah, Achaan

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Holtz, Lou

I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Clark, J. Reuben

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Dhammapada

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

11.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Moore, Marcia

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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Homer

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You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Selye, Hans

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Make sure somebody need you.

39.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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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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Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

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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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We came here to serve not be served.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.