Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Service

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

Fillmore, Charles

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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 serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Henderson, Nelson

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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

Albrecht, Karl

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We came here to serve not be served.

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Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Seneca

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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

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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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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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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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 survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Mandino, Og

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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

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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo