Motivational Quotes

Service

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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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

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

Moore, Marcia

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

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Churchill, Winston

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Cook, James R.

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

Doherty, Henry L.

11.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Jerome, St.

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

Seneca

15.

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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God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

17.

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

Wieder, Marcia

18.

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

Homer

21.

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

Selye, Hans

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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

26.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

29.

Make sure somebody need you.

30.

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

Aue, Hartmann Von

31.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Ward, William A.

43.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Tracy, Brian

44.

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

45.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

46.

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

Dhammapada

47.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Diana, Princess of Wales