Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Ligario, Cicero Pro

Best Quotes about Service

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

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

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

Selye, Hans

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

Seneca

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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We came here to serve not be served.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Dhammapada

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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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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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Be alert to give service -- what counts most in life is what we do for others.

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

Homer

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Bible

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Make sure somebody need you.

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Olney, Judith

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

Cook, James R.

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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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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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?

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.