Quotes About Service

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

Lest I keep my complacent way, I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today, As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for today?

In a democratic society we must live cooperatively, and serve the community in which we live, to the best of our ability. For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

Many of the boys I saw in hospitals are now leading happy and useful lives, but they carry with them, day after day, the results of the war. If we do not achieve the ends for which they sacrificed—a peaceful world in which there exists freedom from fear of both aggression and want—we have failed.

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

La plebe éramos nosotros. La plebe era ese disputarse la comida y el vino, ese pelearse para que te sirvieran el primero y mejor, ese suelo mugriento por el que los camareros iban y venían, esos brindis cada vez más vulgares...

Los empleados municipales lavan la sangre en la Plaza de los Sacrificios. • Octavio Paz

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

Nobody ever said we were put on this earth for our own entertainment

Having served for nearly half a century in the House of Commons, I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

An eternal life is a life that one lives according to his or her decree to ultimately be a fine human being, agreeing with the concept of goodness, foreseeing the dangers ahead either by prophesies or by anticipation and to serve our Heavenly Father unselfishly.

A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.

People take in their car for servicing and checkups every few months without complaint. Why shouldn't they take similar care of their bodies?4

Do not be like servants who serve their masters expecting to receive a reward be rather like servants who serve their master unconditionally, with no thought of reward.

There is no work so mean, but it would amply serve me to furnish me with sustenance.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

Will you be lighting the lamp, or is it the entire night you expect me to stand here?" the maid asked in a low hiss.

Quien no vive para algo, ha de vivir para alguien.

el que se ocupa demasiado en hacer el bien, no tiene tiempo de ser bueno».

She [the Church] proclaims that we owe love, honour and service to God in the first place, and after God not to humanity immediately, but to our father and mother, to our families, to our countries. After these, to humanity.

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

Oma apu on paras apu.

A person who claims to have joined politics to serve the people is mostly interested in building own growth curve.

A person who is keen to see an ALIEN should start practising altruistic service towards others and soon, most people will make him feel and realise that he is from a different planet.