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Quotes About Service

I have had a great time as president.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time.
~ Tom Peters
There is always a place in the world for those who are willing to give of their time, energy, capital, creativity, and commitment.
~ Tony Robbins
You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time
~ Vincent de Paul
He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as are all those with which we deal.
~ Vincent de Paul
The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time.
~ Julian of Norwich
No, I have someone who comes to the house and washes it, puts in the dry shampoo, and takes care if it because I have no time.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
That's important, I think, for people who come here to realize that we are here for only a time and we have an obligation of service and we need to keep things in perspective.
~ Karl Rove
I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.
~ Laurent Lamothe
The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.
~ Leonard L. Berry
My heart's desire is to find more opportunities to give myself away and teach my children the joy of service at the same time.
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.
~ Mary J. Blige
I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.
~ Mitt Romney
There are others who take up that (liberating) role. I have no time to spend for that.
~ Mother Teresa
I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.
~ Mr. T
Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.
~ Mark Twain
TOM! No answer. TOM! No answer. What's gone with that boy,  I wonder? You TOM! No answer. The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for style, not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well.
~ Mark Twain
We all know about Father Damien, the French priest who voluntarily forsook the world and went to the leper island of Molokai to labor among its population of sorrowful exiles who wait there, in slow-consuming misery, for death to come and release them from their troubles;
~ Mark Twain
If ze zhentlemans will to me make ze grande honneur to me rattain in hees serveece, I shall show to him every sing zat is magnifique to look upon in ze beautiful Parree. I speaky ze Angleesh pairfaitemaw.
~ Mark Twain
THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for style, not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed
~ Mark Twain