Quotes About Service

You said five little words to someone--How can I help you?--and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them.

Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving.

Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving. " 'Sacrifice,' " he remembered

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.

The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations.

Men have always volunteered, they just called themselves coaches, trustees, and firemen!

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.