Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Service

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Adams, Douglas

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

I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Churchill, Winston

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

10.

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

11.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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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.

18.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

19.

Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Auchincloss, Louis

21.

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

Johnson

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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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

25.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Selye, Hans

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Anthony, Dr. Robert

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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.

31.

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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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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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

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What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.

Westcott, Bishop

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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Antoinette, Marie

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

Olney, Judith

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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.

42.

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Einstein, Albert

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And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. [Mark 10:44]

Bible

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