Motivational Quotes

Service

If he works for you, you work for him.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Service

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

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

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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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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.

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

Selye, Hans

17.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Clark, J. Reuben

20.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

25.

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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.

32.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Cook, James R.

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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.

Carver, George Washington

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

Jerome, St.

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

Moore, Marcia

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

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.