Quotes About Service

I feel blessed to be in the broadcast business for 20 years. I believe that when you're this blessed, you have an obligation to pay it forward. That's what life is all about ultimately.

I can't imagine just dusting my pants off and going about my life like, "Phew! I sure made it through a tough spot, now where am I headed?" I feel more of an obligation to be helpful.

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.

When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people."

In gratitude for God's gift of life to us we should share that gift with others. The art of giving encompasses many areas. It is an outgoing, overflowing way of life.

I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.

I can honestly say that being a United States senator has been the honor of my life.

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

A life not lived for others is not a life, a game not played for others is not a game.

No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.

Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.

...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.

It's a Wonderful Life. This film illustrates that if you treat your customers with respect, they will recognize you and even help when you're most in need.

It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

We must do everything we can to help our service members and veterans transition into civilian life once they return home, and that means preparing them for the tough job market.

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.

I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.

In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments.