Quotes About Service

Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.

As someone who has been a Marine, how do you change things? You step up to the plate. And you are the one who says put me in.

When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.

I just want to help people, especially with the platform I'm on. I try and help people as much as possible.

When you first get into television it is a big deal, then you realize you are no better than anyone else, we just have a platform to use, to help other people. I use that platform for the work I do in the military, the work I do with cancer because I was fortunate enough to get that platform.

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.

The Holiday Inn Express brand is known for great service, comfortable beds, all-you-can-eat ice from machines at every hotel, so I was pretty excited when they asked me to be a part of their Smart Thinking Platform.

We're really thinking how do we re-imagine PayPal almost as a service. PayPal as a SaaS platform.

At the end of the day, when you're trying to do good, that's all that matters. Whether it's in a different aspect than in the N.B.A. or N.F.L., you should use your platform for good.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

The greatest honor of my life was to lead these men in my platoon, even though it was a war that I and they disagreed with.

Exposing the activities of a foreign intelligence service renders them ineffective, since it removes plausible deniability, which is the hallmark of covert intelligence operations.

I didn't grow up wanting to play basketball. I grew up wanting to enlist and then go into law enforcement.

I've been so blessed to make this money and to play basketball and still have a job, but there are people out there who need support from us.

At the end of the day, we're here to play basketball but to help the community, too. It's something that makes me feel good and I do it more for me than for the others, but at the end of the day helping others helps yourself, too.

I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'

What's important is that a customer should get off the airplane feeling, 'I didn't just get from A to B. I had one of the most pleasant experiences I ever had, and I'll be back for that reason.'

If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

The ability to please your shareholders comes because of what you do for clients.

The service of food is to nurture, to please, to nourish.

A dog's heart chakra is always open; their aim in life is to please.

We are a party which believes that we work in the national interest, not just to please my opposition.