Motivational Quotes

Service

God likes help when helping people.

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Service

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

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

Einstein, Albert

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Henderson, Nelson

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Johnson

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

Clark, J. Reuben

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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The measure of a man is not the number of his servants, but in the number of people whom he serves.

Moody, Paul D.

11.

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

Homer

12.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Tracy, Brian

13.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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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.

15.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

16.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

17.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

18.

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

Antoinette, Marie

19.

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

Mandino, Og

20.

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

Leamer, Laurence

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ford, Henry

28.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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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?

31.

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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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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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Churchill, Winston

34.

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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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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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

41.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

43.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

44.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Ward, William A.

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