Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Service

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

Selye, Hans

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

If he works for you, you work for him.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

Antoinette, Marie

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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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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

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

Jerome, St.

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

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

Voltaire

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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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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

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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Moore, Marcia

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

Chah, Achaan

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Ade, George

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

Homer

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Albrecht, Karl

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

39.

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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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Adams, John

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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

Dhammapada

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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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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.