Quotes About Service

In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone.

I have never once claimed that I have a Combat Action Badge. I have never claimed that I have a Purple Heart. What I have claimed is that I have served in a combat zone.

Serving 27 million Texans spread across 254 counties and two time zones isn't a job for those who require a lot of sleep.

Shows I've done in war zones are the greatest. The first time I was in Iraq, I kid you not, I felt so uncomfortable having the troops say, 'Thank you.' It's so deep and heartfelt.

Very few people know someone who would voluntarily go into a war zone to protect a person he has never met. I know 1,000 of them, and I am proud that they are part of our team.

Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.

For so must it be, and help me do my part.

Go and wake up your cook.

The life of the spirit is centrally and essentially a life of action. Spirituality is something done, not merely something believed, or known or experienced.

Trust in God and do something.

God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.

Here am I; send me.

The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.

On the day of his death, in his eightieth year, Elliot, 'the Apostle of the Indians,' was found teaching an Indian child at his bedside. 'Why not to rest from your labours now?' asked a friend. 'Because,' replied the venerable man, 'I have prayed God to render me useful in my sphere, and he has heard my prayers; for now that I can no longer preach, he leaves me strength enough to teach this poor child the alphabet.'

Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

God respects me when I work, but loves me when I sing.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.

I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in.

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.