Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

Cook, James R.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Buck, Pearl S.

Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Doherty, Henry L.

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

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

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Moore, Marcia

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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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Make sure somebody need you.

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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

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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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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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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.

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Einstein, Albert

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Homer

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

Moody, Paul D.

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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Westcott, Bishop

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Holtz, Lou

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

Adams, John

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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.