Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Ward, William A.

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.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Westcott, Bishop

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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 love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Bible

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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.

Ligario, Cicero Pro

20.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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

23.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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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

25.

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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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 being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Edelman, Marian Wright

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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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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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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 man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown.

Proverb, Jewish

32.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

43.

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

Dhammapada

44.

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

Leamer, Laurence

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Jerome, St.

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

Selye, Hans

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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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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