Quotes About Service

The 'Rule of St. Benedict' makes it possible for ordinary folk to live lives of quite extraordinary value. The weak have a place to do their best.

But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people.

At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak.

I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

It is our job to make a difference and leave the world a better place.

It feels good to be in a place now where I can give back to my community.

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

I plan to die at my desk.

I plan on being a friend, a good leader and a good governor over these next three years.

From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.

The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much as anyone's to make sure we make it as safe as possible up there for them.

I'm not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me.

It's important to give back because that's what we were put on this planet to do.

There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

No man wants more war if he's planned memorial services for fallen comrades, carried their flag-draped caskets off a plane, and buried them at Arlington National Cemetery.

I learned a lot of lessons growing up on my family's farm on the Eastern Shore: the dignity of hard work, the importance of planning ahead, and the joy you get from serving others. Not to mention how to collect eggs, shear a sheep, and bail hay by hand.

When you open any kind of food service establishment, you do all this planning, but it's not until you've opened the door and people are inside that you learn what people want you to be to them.

The work I do when I'm not making music is very much about service, helping women give birth or aiding in family planning.

Your soul's mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your inner world, and there are important lessons for you to learn and share on this journey to your most magnificent self.

The Lord called me to plant a church.

The Lord needed the strength of the women of this Church as the seeds of the Restoration were planted and nourished.