Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Henderson, Nelson

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Make sure somebody need you.

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

Selye, Hans

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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

Adams, John

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

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Dhammapada

14.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

23.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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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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

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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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If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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

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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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I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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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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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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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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.