Motivational Quotes

Service

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

- Chisholm, Shirley Anita

Best Quotes about Service

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

Adams, Douglas

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Chisholm, Shirley Anita

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.

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

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

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

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

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

10.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.

Woods, Tiger

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Unwilling service earns no thanks.

Proverb, Danish

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Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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May he who is highest serve best.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ford, Henry

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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Young, Edward

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

Cook, James R.

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

Henderson, Nelson

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

Voltaire

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

Hegel, Georg

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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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No man can help another without helping himself.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

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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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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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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.

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

Chah, Achaan

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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.

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

Dhammapada