Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Johnson

Best Quotes about Service

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

Henderson, Nelson

The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

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.

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

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

We came here to serve not be served.

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

Jerome, St.

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

Voltaire

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

Selye, Hans

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

Cook, James R.

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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

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

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23.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Albrecht, Karl

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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Einstein, Albert

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

35.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

Antoinette, Marie

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hegel, Georg

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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]

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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.