Motivational Quotes

Service

Find a need and fill it.

- Peale, Ruth Stafford

Best Quotes about Service

Make sure somebody need you.

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Voltaire

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Cook, James R.

10.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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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

13.

It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.

14.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Adams, John

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

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

Moore, Marcia

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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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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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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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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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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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?

43.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Seneca

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

Selye, Hans