Motivational Quotes

Service

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

- Madame de Stael

Best Quotes about Service

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Seneca

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

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

VIII, Pope Boniface

Always do more than is required of you.

Patton, George S.

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

Find a need and fill it.

Peale, Ruth Stafford

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

Hegel, Georg

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

Voltaire

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

Homer

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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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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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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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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 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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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Ade, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Antoinette, Marie

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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Albrecht, Karl

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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.

32.

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

Bible

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

The public must and will be served.

Penn, William

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

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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.

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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Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.

Rohn, Jim

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

Chah, Achaan

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

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We came here to serve not be served.

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