Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Service

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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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

Homer

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

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

Moore, Marcia

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

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

Bible

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Make sure somebody need you.

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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Seneca

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

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Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

Ade, George

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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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Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Leonard, Steve

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

Cook, James R.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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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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Obedience to our Heavenly Father starts with our loving service to a needy brother.

Ward, William A.

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

Selye, Hans

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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Voltaire