Quotes About Service

I take pride in saying that I am an army officer's daughter even more than being an actor.

I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.

If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we begin to seek learning to exalt ourselves alone, it leads to selfishness and pride, which will take us away from eternal life.

Anyplace we go in the world, when someone asks us what we do, we feel an immense pride in saying, 'FBI.'

I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.

I have blessed hands. I got my hands blessed by the priest, and I am able to give out Holy Communion at Mass. It is lovely to be part of it.

I wanted to be a priest when I was really young.

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

Goldman in the '80s was like a priesthood, a monastic experience where you worked all the time but were incredibly dedicated to client services, to building and growing companies.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood - both its power and those who bear it.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

I left because I decided it just really wasn't for me, and I got a better understanding of what the Catholic Church needed from its priests and ministers.

Priests focus on the spiritual. As a lay person I could show people how to be good Catholics in the world.

I'm going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I'm able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience.

When I was hired to write and direct a movie, my Christian duty suddenly became quite clear: My primary duty as a Christian in Hollywood is to do my job well.

What we do is service a story first, and then you figure out how to pay for it later. If the narrative isn't your primary focus, then the movie is going to become diluted, and you don't have a movie that is as good as it could be, so it probably won't make as much money.

The prime minister's office is not something that one enjoys.

Every day, the Prime Minister is a 24-hour servant of the people of India.