Quotes About Service

So live. I'll be the nun for you. I am now.

Dedicate (donate, give all) your life to something larger than yourself and pleasure - to the largest thing you can: to God, to relieving suffering, to contributing to knowledge, to adding to literature, or something else. Happiness lies this way, and it beats pleasure hollow.

You don't owe your country nothing," I remember him telling me. "You owe it something, and depending on what happens, you might owe it your life.

Civilians understand soldiers to have a kind of baseline duty, and that everything above that is considered "bravery." Soldiers see it the other way around: either you're doing your duty or you're a coward.

Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.

We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. —Winston Churchill (or George Orwell)

You don't owe your country nothing," I remember him telling me. "You owe it something, and depending on what happens, you might owe it your life." The way my father put it completely turned the issue around for me: suddenly the draft card wasn't so much an obligation as a chance to be part of something bigger than myself.

It makes absolutely no sense to make sacrifices for a group that, itself, isn't willing to make sacrifices for you. That is the position American soldiers have been in for the past decade and a half. There

the 1,323 soldiers who were wounded in that war and

Real leaders don't care [about receiving credit]. If it's about your mission, about spreading the faith, about seeing something happen, not only do you not care about credit, you actually want other people to take credit...There's no record of Martin Luther King, Jr. or Gandhi whining about credit. Credit isn't the point. Change is.

If you travel on an airline and they get you there safely, you don't tell anyone. That's what's supposed to happen. What makes it remarkable is if it's horrible beyond belief or if the service is so unexpected (they were an hour early! they comped my ticket because I was cute! they served flaming crêpes suzette in first class!) that you need to share it.

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

Generosity generates income. This works whether you are selling paintings or innovation or a service. Linus

Becoming a linchpin is not an act of selfishness. I see it as an act of generosity

Service to the change they seek to make. Willing to tell a story that resonates with a group that they care enough to serve. There could be an overlap. It's possible that it's the way you feel right this minute, but it might not be. The version of you on offer might run many layers deep, but it can't possibly be all of you, all the time.

Yes, the Internet is a discovery tool, but no, you're not going to get discovered that way. Instead, you will make your impact by uniting those you seek to serve.

Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get. Even

Marketing is the generous act of helping someone solve a problem. Their problem.

There's a practice available to each of us—the practice of embracing the process of creation in service of better. The practice is not the means to the output, the practice is the output

Yes, you're an imposter. But you're an imposter acting in service of generosity, seeking to make things better. When we embrace imposter syndrome instead of working to make it disappear, we choose the productive way forward. The imposter is proof that we're innovating, leading, and creating.

A combination of more convenience, better service, aggressive pricing, and better results will make you irresistible to some people. It won't work for everyone. Some folks may never switch. But that's okay. You don't need everyone. Just enough to keep you busy and the cash flowing!

You do people a service when you make better things and make it easy to talk about them. The best reason someone talks about you is because they're actually talking about themselves: "Look at how good my taste is." Or perhaps, "Look at how good I am at spotting important ideas.

the magic was in the guts it took to carefully curate the customers. Choose the people you serve, choose your future.

When you lead without compensation, when you sacrifice without guarantees, when you take risks because you believe, then you are demonstrating your faith in the tribe and its mission.