Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Selye, Hans

Best Quotes about Service

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

Seneca

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

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.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

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

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

Holtz, Lou

10.

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

Bible

11.

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.

12.

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

Adams, John

13.

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

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

15.

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

16.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.

Aue, Hartmann Von

18.

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

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

20.

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

21.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Ford, Henry

22.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

23.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

24.

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

Proverb, Jewish

25.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

27.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

28.

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

29.

It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.

30.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

31.

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

32.

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

33.

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

Voltaire

34.

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

Jerome, St.

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

37.

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

40.

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

41.

We came here to serve not be served.

42.

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

Selye, Hans

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

47.

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

Moore, Marcia

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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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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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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