Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Fillmore, Charles

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

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

10.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

11.

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

Leamer, Laurence

12.

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

Hegel, Georg

13.

We came here to serve not be served.

14.

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.

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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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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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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

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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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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?

20.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Bible

22.

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

Jerome, St.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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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

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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

30.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

33.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Tracy, Brian

39.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Johnson

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

Homer

44.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

45.

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

Einstein, Albert

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Confucius

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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama

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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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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford