Quotes About Service

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

When Captain America knocks at your door, you answer.

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

I made hats until I went into the Army. I was drafted during the Korean War.

Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.

Obviously my dad served in the Korean War. He was a Master Sergeant when he was 18 years old.

I remember during the Gulf War, my father's ship had just finished a deployment in in the Gulf and was on its way back when the war started in Kuwait. They turned around and went back to the Gulf.

If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

Hospitality, however, seeks to minister. It says, "This home is not mine. It is truly a gift from my Master. I am His servant and I use it as He desires." Hospitality does not try to impress, but to serve.

When we understand that He is Lord of our time, we realize that interruptions are of His planning. They become opportunities to serve rather than plagues to keep us from functioning.

It is proper to say that the Christian's primary purpose as a steward is to add to the estate of his Master and not to that of his own.

In some strange way, when we are about His business, He makes the eternity, about which we know so very little, work in our favor.

God knows we are limited by time and space; Jesus himself was. He didn't preach to everyone, heal everyone, comfort everyone, or even convert everyone. He simply showed up where God told him to go and did what God told him to do.

Using your own time to make someone else's life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.

I have enormous respect for our military men and women, the everyday heroes who provide the security the rest of us enjoy. I don't like them in front of that door.

A superhero isn't something you play at sometimes—it's something you are. Full-time, all the time, every day.

the most powerful metric we've seen for analyzing processes in office, service, and knowledge work environments: percent complete and accurate (%C&A)

We use three metrics to evaluate the current state of 98 percent of the office and service value streams we've encountered: process time, lead time, and percent complete and accurate.

The primary type of value stream is one in which a good or service is requested by and delivered to an external customer. Other value streams support the delivery of value; we refer to these as value-enabling or supporting value streams.

but God and country, you know. You do what you must.

We can do nothing of any measure for Him, save loving Him. Bella teaches us that is enough. In fact, it is all that matters.