Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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?

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

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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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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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Curie, Madame Marie

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Homer

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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

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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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The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.

Wolfe, Beran

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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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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Adams, John

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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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Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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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My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

Woods, Tiger

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

Seneca

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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Make sure somebody need you.

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

Johnson