Quotes About Service

In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

I, whom proof hath taught of lateHow so far only should we hate our foesAs though we soon might love them, and so farDo a friend service as to one most likeSomeday to prove our foe, since oftenest menIn friendship but a faithless haven find.

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

before many doctors were too busy to serve. Russell Nelson changed all of that in his service as stake president and general president of the Sunday School. He blessed the church..I give Russell M. Nelson credit for changing the stereotype that doctors are too busy to serve in the church,

The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake, but also the eternal welfare of many of our brothers and sisters who are not now members of this, the true Church. I thrill to the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith in a letter that he sent to the Church from Nauvoo on September 6, 1842: 'Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward. … Courage … and on, on to the victory!

My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.

Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish. These real heroines have true humility, which places a higher value on integrity than on visibility. Remember, it is as wrong to do things just to be seen of women as it is to do things to be seen of men. Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.

No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study the scriptures and the words of modern prophets. None of us should get so busy that we crowd out contemplation and praying. None of us should become so busy in our formal Church assignments that there is no room left for quiet Christian service to our neighbors.

We must eliminate the individual tendency to selfishness that snares the soul, shrinks the heart, and darkens the mind.

In the Church, we can give expression to every ability, every righteous desire, every thoughtful impulse. Whether a volunteer, father, home teacher, bishop, or neighbor, whether a visiting teacher, mother, homemaker, or friend—there is ample opportunity to give our all. And as we give, we find that 'sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven!' (Hymns, no. 147) And in the end, we learn it was no sacrifice at all.

What message may I take from you to the young people in Zion?" The answer was quick and positive. "Tell them," said the doomed man, "to keep their lives so full of good works that there will be no room for evil.

So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving mundane help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow from mundane acts and from small but deliberate deeds!

As we lose ourselves in service to others, we find greater spirituality and happiness.

How long was I in the Army? Five foot eleven.

Americas special strength lies not in frightening the weak and challenging the strong, but in strengthening the weak and illumining the strong.

By the karma of good actions, some come to serve the Perfect Guru.

Serving the Guru, I have found eternal peace; my ego has been silenced and subdued.

The body has to be utilized for service to others. More bliss can be got from serving others than from merely serving oneself.

Be in the world like a maid servant in a rich man's house. The maid servant deals with all the objects and things always knowing that nothing belongs to her and that this is not her true home.

Service broadens your vision widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.