Motivational Quotes

Service

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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Best Quotes about Service

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

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca

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

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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

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

Moore, Marcia

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

Einstein, Albert

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We came here to serve not be served.

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

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Homer

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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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Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

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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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Albrecht, Karl

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

Henderson, Nelson

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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Johnson

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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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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I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the top of the list somewhere is to give pleasure to others.

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Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.

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

Ward, William A.

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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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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

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Einstein, 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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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Gropius, Walter

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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.