Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Service

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

Ligario, Cicero Pro

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

Homer

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.

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Ward, William A.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

10.

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

Confucius

11.

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

12.

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Wolfe, Beran

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

Selye, Hans

14.

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

18.

May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

19.

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

20.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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I love meeting people and helping them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

27.

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

Wieder, Marcia

28.

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

29.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

Antoinette, Marie

32.

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

33.

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

Chah, Achaan

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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

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We came here to serve not be served.

41.

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

Clark, J. Reuben

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Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

43.

Never stop serving your customers. They'll love you for it.

44.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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Once you shape a company to service the marketplace and your services are necessary, the company develops a compulsion of its own to grow.

Ortenberg, Elisabeth Claiborne

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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.

Adams, Douglas

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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10]

Bible

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Einstein, Albert