Quotes About Service

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs

All that matters is what we do for each other.

It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.

For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily presence is all they need contribute. And, for Clergy and Congregation alike, it involves the danger of regarding these elaborate Services as ends in themselves, and of forgetting that they are simply means, and the very hollowest of mockeries, unless they bear fruit in our lives.

The only time to look down on your neighbor is when you're bending over to help them.

Single women can choose to serve others as well; we don't have to be married before we can give to others.

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money" (Matthew 6:24).

Absurdly enough, not even Central Europeans who had served in the Foreign Legion had been exempted from internment.

Strength is given us for service, not to convey status (see Romans 15:2). I wonder how much trouble would be averted in the world at large if everyone knew and adhered to this principle. What if we knew that our strength was to serve the weak, fearful, or timid? It would all be good!

Luka loved the sheriff's department. He moved in a stiff-legged trot, all keen eyes and pricked-up ears. Retired police officer, returning for duty.

No. I joined the FBI so I could be heavily armed, and also help others.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

I will create value for society, rather than extract it.

Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

I serve society by rocking!

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.