Motivational Quotes

Service

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

Best Quotes about Service

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

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.

Carver, George Washington

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Augustine, St.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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

Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.

Dever, J. A.

Make sure somebody need you.

God likes help when helping people.

Proverb, Irish

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 the privilege of living on this earth.

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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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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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?

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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Patterson, John H.

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It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.

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

Adams, John

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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Motto

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

Auchincloss, Louis

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Confucius

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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 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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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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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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The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

Leamer, Laurence

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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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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.

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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hegel, Georg

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for 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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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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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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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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 oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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