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Service Quotes

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.

Roy T. Bennett

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

Barack Obama

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Help others achieve their dreams, and you will achieve yours.

Les Brown

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands—one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

Martin Luther King Jr.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Colin Powell

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Shirley Chisholm

At the end of the day, it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished. It’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better.

Denzel Washington

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

Be of service, whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work.

Oprah Winfrey

Service to others leads to greatness.

Jim Rohn

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is too short not to do a little something for someone else.

Unknown

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Orison Swett Marden

Helping others is the way we help ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

We rise by lifting others.

Robert Ingersoll

Give, but give until it hurts.

Mother Teresa

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

J. Irwin Miller

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self-promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.

Mollie Marti

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

King George VI

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Horace Mann

Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless.

Sherry Anderson

Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.

Amy Leigh Mercree

Great leaders don’t set out to be a leader. They set out to make a difference. It’s never about the role—always about the goal.

Unknown

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

The best thing about being kind, generous, and loving is that it’s contagious.

Unknown

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Booker T. Washington

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

Sally Koch

You have two hands. One to help yourself, the second to help others.

Unknown

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pike

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

Confucius

Helping one person might not change the world, but it could change the world for that one person.

Unknown

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

One of the greatest gifts you can give is your time.

Unknown

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Ronald Reagan

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Howard Zinn

If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.

Buddha

Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.

Simon Sinek

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you.

Barack Obama

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

John Wooden

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Buddha

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Helen Keller

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Pearl S. Buck

Service to others is the foundation of success in every great society.

George H. W. Bush

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

Les Brown

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

Oscar Wilde

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

John Wesley

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Marianne Williamson

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

Douglas Adams

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.

Mary Rose McGeady

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Charles Dickens

To serve is to love. Love is serving.

Lailah Gifty Akita

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve.

Sheri L. Dew

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

Albert Einstein

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

Mother Teresa

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Anne Frank

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

John Bunyan

Leaders serve others to ensure their success.

Bill Courtney

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

Ray Kroc