Quotes About Service

Flynn seemed to want a response, so Pike nodded. "I respect your service, but I don't give a rat's ass about it. Half this police force was in the Marines and the other half is tired of hearing about it. This is a city in the United States of America. It isn't a war zone.

La ambición del corazón es pura. No compite con nadie y no hace daño a nadie. De hecho, le sirve a uno de tal manera que sirve a otros al mismo tiempo.

I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: 'Them that's going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain't, get out of the way'.

Keep your eyes open. Suspend judgment. Be useful

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm.

A British journalist once asked Mother Teresa how she kept going, knowing that she could never meet the needs of all the dying in the streets of Calcutta. She replied, "I am not called to be successful; I'm called to be faithful.

In the kingdom of God, barking orders at others is not an acceptable way to try to solve problems created by our inadequacies.

O, all right!' said the Toad, readily. 'Anything to oblige. Though why on earth you should want to have a Banquet in the morning I cannot understand. But you know I do not live to please myself, but merely to find out what my friends want, and then try and arrange it for 'em, you dear old Badger

Wash your dirty dishes like you are washing the infant Jesus.

For he that contributes only to his own welfare soon finds little to work for. He that contributes only to the welfare of others soon finds too much of others and has lost the appreciation of self, or of its ideals." (3478-2)

Administering to others is the best way to help self. More individuals become so anxious about their own troubles, and yet helping others is the best way to rid yourself of your own troubles . . . Then what are you grumbling about because you dislike your mother? She dislikes you as much, but change this into love. Be kind, be gentle, be patient, be longsuffering, for if thy God was not longsuffering with thee, what chance would you have? 5081-1

unselfishness is so vital to one's fulfillment of the earth cycle.

You give of yourself so that someone else can achieve their goal.

You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere.

Together we made our way from the service entrances in back to the front, Jenks shedding clothes and handing them to me to stuff in my bag every few yards. It was terribly distracting, but I managed to avoid running into the Dumpsters and recycling bins.

You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere.

You want some advice?" he asked. "No." "Good. Listen anyway. Looks to me like you've become the leader here. Accept it. Know it comes with a price. People will be doing things for you. Don't be selfish. Let them.

It is a form of grace to become nothing but a task -Hjalmar Nederland from Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge

When everyone was seated they took up the water pitchers and poured each other's water

Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?

It's B.Y.O.S. Bring Your Own Sacrifice.

I will have spent my entire life in service to the kingdom, only to abandon it in a time of need, for a female who doesn't even want me!

They come in injured and mangled, we put them back together, then they stand in my halls making demands. A thankless lot to be sure.