Quotes About Service

The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others.

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

I know Rick [Monday] has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did for his country, he will be remembered for the rest of his life as an American hero.

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Our department takes 1,120 calls every day. Do you know how many of the calls the public expects perfection on? 1,120. Nobody calls the fire department and says, 'Send me two dumb-ass firemen in a pickup truck.' In three minutes they want five brain-surgeon decathlon champions to come and solve all their problems.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

In the next two years he would sit on ninety committees, chairing twenty-five. No other congressman came even remotely close to carrying such a heavy work load. Soon he was acknowledged "to be the first man in the House," as Benjamin Rush reported.28

He was convinced that public service and private misery were inextricably linked.

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it - and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions-were we truly men of courage ... were we truly men of judgment ... were we truly men of integrity ... were we truly men of dedication

I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living

true authority came from sharing the hard work, not attempting to place oneself above it.