Quotes About Service

I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid.

The office of presbyters is a permanent one.

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.

It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.

Bureaucracies tend to perpetuate themselves, whether they are multinational corporations or large government institutions such as Medicare, often at the expense of those that they are supposed to serve.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Yes: all men believe and repeat that equality of conditions is identical with equality of rights; that property and robbery are synonymous terms; that every social advantage accorded, or rather usurped, in the name of superior talent or service, is iniquity and extortion. All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

Half a century ago in this court I was sworn in as the Member of Parliament for George. And here I am today I am not better than General De Wet. I am not better than President Steyn. Like them I stand firm in my principles. I can do no different. So help me God.

Whoever touches the body of a patient, touches the body of Christ.

No physician, insofar as he is a physician, considers his own good in what he prescribes, but the good of his patient; for the true physician is also a ruler having the human body as a subject, and is not a mere moneymaker.

As Plato says: 'People cannot be good leaders, unless they have first been good servants.

All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.

Do not be afraid to say 'yes' to Jesus, to find your joy in doing his will, giving yourself completely to the pursuit of holiness, and using all your talents in the service of others!

... Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

A doctor is a book-loaded donkey.

Barang siapa mempunyai sumbangan pada kemanusian dia tetap terhormat sepanjang jaman, bukan kehormatan sementara. Mungkin orang itu tidak mendapatkan sesuatu sukses dalam hidupnya, mungkin dia tidak mempunyai sahabat, mungkin tak mempunyai kekuasaan barang secuwil pun. Namun umat manusia akan menghormati karena jasa-jasanya.

tetapi berbahagialah orang yang kuat menderita segala kesengsaraan untuk keperluan nusa dan bangsa

Women prefer to serve the present and are afraid of age; they are in the grip of youth of their dreams. Age is truly an oppression for women.

Pranab Mukherjee

By being the servant of all, a Hindu seeks to uplift himself. That is how the Hindus should uplift the masses, and not by looking for any foreign influence.

Live a simple life so others can simply live