Motivational Quotes

Service

There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair; you can fold them in idleness; you can clench them in anger; or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.

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Best Quotes about Service

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Mandino, Og

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Leamer, Laurence

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

Ford, Henry

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

Ade, George

10.

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

Proverb, Jewish

11.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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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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

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

Seneca

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

17.

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

18.

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

19.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

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

Adams, John

21.

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

Hegel, Georg

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Henderson, Nelson

28.

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.

29.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

30.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

31.

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.

32.

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

Cook, James R.

33.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

34.

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

35.

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

Selye, Hans

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

37.

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

Dhammapada

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

We came here to serve not be served.

40.

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

41.

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Olney, Judith

42.

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

43.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

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

45.

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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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?

47.

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

Tracy, Brian

48.

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

Homer

49.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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