Quotes About Service

The recognition that you have positively affected the life of another person in a way that few can is the greatest reward of this great profession.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

The public must and will be served.

you do unto the least of these, my little ones, you do unto Me,' " he paraphrased.

I thought it made her happy to help out. You know, the way some people claim to like picking up litter or helping the homeless or standing outside supermarkets trying to get me to sign petitions.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

Service is no heritage.

'Tis mad idolatryTo make the service greater than the god.

That sir which serves and seeks for gain,And follows but for form,Will pack when it begins to rain,And leave thee in the storm.

I' the commonwealth I would by contrariesExecute all things; for no kind of trafficWould I admit; no name of magistrate;Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,And use of service, none; contract, succession,Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;No occupation; all men idle, all;And women too, but innocent and pure.

Beauty, wit,High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service,Love, friendship, charity, are subjects allTo envious and calumniating time.One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures.

Had I but serv'd my God with half the zealI serv'd my king, he would not in mine ageHave left me naked to mine enemies.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth,Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

It did me yeoman's service.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

There is no room for pride before the Lord, however high and privileged our service of Him may be.

The Church must be free to be poor in order to minister among the poor.

He looked for a job, and the job that he found was that of an orderly in a hospital, on the night shift, where his work was emptying bed pans, wrapping up dead bodies, and doing all the other things which orderlies have to do. You never met a more emancipated man.

Aquele que só for atraído pelas honrarias e pela ambição do mando, sem esperança de produzir trabalho útil, é indigno da posição que disputa e incapaz de exercer o poder.

If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.