Motivational Quotes

Service

If he works for you, you work for him.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Service

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.

Hegel, Georg

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

Dhammapada

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

Einstein, Albert

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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Adams, Douglas

11.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

12.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

13.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Ade, George

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Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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

Mandino, Og

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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

20.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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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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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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]

Bible

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

Adams, John

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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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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bible

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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

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We came here to serve not be served.

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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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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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When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.