Quotes About Service

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us.

With what we give, we make a life.

Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life.

My object is to save the world, while still leading a pleasant life.

I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.

My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.

My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life thats what Id be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. Thats where the spirit of the armed forces is.

I worked in restaurants the first half of my life.

Jesus poured out his soul in life before he poured it out unto death

Gweneth Paltrow is a joke. Her life is like taking bullets for a soldier. What a joke! My 2 sons serving in the military should talk to her.

As the sun pours forth its life that we on this Earth may live, may I pour forth my life this day in service to others and in love for you, my beloved God.

The sweetest life is to be ever making sacrifices for Christ; the hardest life a man can lead on earth, the most full of misery, is to be always doing his own will and seeking to please himself.

Engineers are, by definition, people whose work is dedicated to making people's lives easier; or, as people used to say, whose work is dedicated to progress.

with meaning, honor, respect, and reintegration into community. When we practice these aright—and it is possible—we fill our communities with honorable, noble, wise elders who in turn serve and mature the society and its most needy.

Poet and kings are but the clerks of Time.

Yet not by Vedas, nor from sacrifice, Nor penance, nor gift-giving, nor with prayer Shall any so behold, as thou hast seen! Only by fullest service, perfect faith, And uttermost surrender am I known And seen, and entered into, Indian Prince! Who doeth all for Me; who findeth Me In all; adoreth always; loveth all Which I have made, and Me, for Love's sole end That man, Arjuna! unto Me doth wend.

The spirit of service essential to avoiding majority or minority tyranny requires that every official seek to deserve the public trust he may not actually possess. However effective the checks and balances of government, however extensive the prevention of abuses of power by government, the government itself will be less than trustworthy unless individual officials try to be worthy of the trust they bear.

A short story In a shop, a smiling female worker to a customer: Can I help you? The male customer smiled, and said, yes, of course, but in what way?

A uniform does not show that you are a patriot and nor prove that until you do it with your practice.

Duty can be then when something exists and has to do.