Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.

Einstein, Albert

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

Woods, Tiger

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.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

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

Adams, Douglas

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Mandino, Og

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Albrecht, Karl

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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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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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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Homer

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Ade, George

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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

Antoinette, Marie

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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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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Ruskin, John

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.