Quotes About Service

Most people don't have a clue what our volunteers really do.

The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Law, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad.—Anything for the good of one's country—I'm a Roman for that.

The best entrepreneurs have found a way to serve others and as a result discover their greatest fulfillment.

Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need.

Being an innkeeper meant walking a fine line between courtesy and tyranny.

To answer your question, yes, you may kiss my ass. Normally I prefer to maintain my personal space, but you're a Friend of the Pack and your services have proven useful once or twice. I strive to accommodate the wishes of persons friendly to my people. My only question is, would your kissing my ass be obeisance, grooming, or foreplay?

We had accepted this job pro bono, because snatching a service animal from a child in a wheelchair was a heinous act and someone had to make it right.

It's not always about one's personal happiness. Sometimes it has to be about the obligation we have to others. A duty to pay back for the gift you were given.

You want to be the best innkeeper you can be. He wants to be the best soldier he can be." Wilmos

What is more, we cannot do morality a worse service than by seeing to derive it from examples. Every example of it presented to me must first itself be judged by moral principles in order to decide if it is fit to serve as an original example...even the Holy One of the gospel must first be compared with our ideal of moral perfection before we can recognize him to be such.

Spiritual service, be it of priest or teacher, was not to be repaid in gold or silver, not because it was valueless but because it was invaluable.

We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.

Nothing is work when it's done with love.

It's never trouble to do things for people you love.

Her little shop might not change the world . . . or garner her a Nobel Peace Prize . . . but Mother Teresa had been right. Not everyone was able to do great things, but everyone could do small things with great love.

I just want to serve and help people and be good to everybody, only it always goes wrong somehow—I think about suicide all the time, every bloody day I want to die and stop this torture, but I go crawling on . . . I'm so Christ-awful bloody lonely I could scream with it for hours on end.

Labour in power?

Shall I come too? said Francis. I might be useful. After all, I am still a doctor in the eyes of God.

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

When they sat down at a small table and punched in their orders